I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.

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

So rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable. But, that doesn't mean there aren't a great number of artists who are doing things to change that.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.

History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.

If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing.