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

I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.

I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

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.

We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.

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

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.