I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.

You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.

I was more of a weightlifter.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.