People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're just the audience. You know, people will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. [But] they are really looking for something that's gonna speak to the world that they're living in. That's what people are looking for, but they're not finding it.

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

You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

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.