I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

God gave us music, so we play with our words.

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

War is not civilized.

Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.