The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.

[T]here's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.

The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.

If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.

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

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.