If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.
Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.