If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.

Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.

It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.

No one likes to be treated like people in minority communities. What it's saying is that because you're poor, because you live in a neighborhood that deals with oppressed conditions, you deserve to be treated like a criminal. In our Constitution it says you have the right to live without illegal search and seizure.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.