I think that heartbreak is a good thing.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

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.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy.

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.