Even if you're frustrated, how do you express yourself? There's no subculture like back in the day.

What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.

Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

Whoever's inside is inside; whoever's out is out.

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.