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

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

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

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

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.

I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle.

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.