Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.

You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself.

I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

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

In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.

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.

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.