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.

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

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.

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

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

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.