I've gone through too much, from beefs to divorce to my mom passing which I always expressed in my music, so there's not album that sticks out as more important than the other to me.

No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done

All I need is one mic . All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man.

Today, with the media, the internet, things get out there about anybody, anytime, so there's nothing wrong about talking about your life, because someone else is going to talk about it and mess it up.

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive.

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.