My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

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.

The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

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

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

I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.