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.

No matter how rich you are, you cannot transport yourself to the future or the past.

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

A more happy mind leads to quietness and clarity. And that clarity helps you have a greater capacity to do more and to become more successful and more giving.

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.

The world belongs to the people who say, 'I can'.