I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. Some Latino poets who barely speak English and Asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. It was luck nad being in the right place. I wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.

Don't worry what others are doing. Do you!

It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.

You just have to smile and breathe. You do the best you can with what you have and that's it.

An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.

I'm a big supporter of President Obama.