Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me.

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

When I wake up in the morning, the first things that I see are the clouds. They're right there. I look out my window now and there's always, always a black bird of some sort on the ledge there. Usually I wake up and look at the birds.