Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name. [But] it's time to expand and move on.

I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.

When people say I don't see you enough, well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.