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 don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

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 think all of this—The Roots and DJing included—was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.

I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.