I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done

Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the heroes of capitalism - you know that's not rebellion. That's not "the street" - that's Wall Street.

When I finally decide that I'm ready to get out of bed, it could be the sunlight, it could be the fact that I'm awake, and, OK, first of all, I wake up in the morning because I have to go to the bathroom.

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

Two autumns and I have not changed enough.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

Vulnerability is power.