Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.

It takes a community to start a revolution.

It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.

My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

Damn straight" said Connor. " So yeah, I look at you and I could suck start a leaf blower, or drill a Kevin-shaped body hole into the wall, like a cartoon.

The Beauty that comes from within is the most Beautiful of all

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all.

The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

Youth deals only in extremes.