The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

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.

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

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

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

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

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