Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

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.

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

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.

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.