If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

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

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.

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.