I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America.