I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.

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.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

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.

All we sell is the Greatest feeling on Earth

For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.

At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.