Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

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.

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.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

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.

I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.