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.

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

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth