I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didnt walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence

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

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

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