Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

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.