You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.

Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.