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.

I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

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.

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

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

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.