The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.