Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.

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

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

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

Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

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.