Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

I think all of this—The Roots and DJing included—was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.

For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

I was one of those skeptics that thought that yoga was for kooks. Now I'm on a very strict regimen. You know, I work out. That's another thing I've learned relaxin', sleep, yoga. I didn't know that that's as crucial as going hard, as workin' hard, as exercising hard. I never knew. I thought that, "Okay, I gotta be at the gym like five hours everyday going balls to the wall." And what my yoga instructor, what my trainer, what they're trying to teach me is that, "No, it's sleep." That's important. That's just as important as workin' out.

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. And you know, I don't sit there, I don't bask in the awards I've won, you know, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger. So for me personally, I just don't celebrate it. I'm happy, right now.