After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.

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

Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?'

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."

I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.

I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.