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.

I love traveling the States no matter what. I love traveling abroad, going to Japan and Australia. I love it. I never get tired of it.

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."

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.

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.

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

What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and the spirit that it took to get Barack Obama in The White House. And what we didn't realize, is that was really the beginning. That was really the beginning of the struggle and not the end of a struggle, to come from colonial times through slavery, through the Jim Crowe Laws, through the civil rights period to The White House as, like a point A/point B journey. Point B of course being the end.