The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.

After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.

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

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

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.