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

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

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.

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.