I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.

I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.

Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.

I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of "Why should I share my money with these people?" We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.