As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not like follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it.

I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.

Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.