Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall.

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate