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

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.

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

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

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done