I think it's very important. I've gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It's something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.

I don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No fish or egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's a good practice to eat anything that might run away from you.

If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.