The test in life nowadays is just trying to keep yourself charged up with enough good feeling. It's like, "OK what am I going to do to feel really good today?" Not like, some chick or a drink.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.

Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato

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.

Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?

I get reminded a lot of the time that my life is a little bit different, but I'm just trying to keep it as regular as possible because I like it that way