I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

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

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

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

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.