Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it

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.

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.

I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.