I don't know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It's the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others.

When you sit quietly and look inside, things that seem so difficult on the outside become a lot easier to digest. Concerns that might've caused a lot of anxiety just come and go.

In the morning I stand up, scratch a little bit, then I light a candle and I meditate. Every morning. I've been meditating for maybe 20 years. I meditate so I can make choices; so I'm not a sheep all the time. So I can see better than what everyone else is doing.

I can't get my medicine.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.