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

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.

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.