I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

Music is the framework around the silence.

When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.