Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood.

I was reckless with records. I would pull them out by my fingertips. I would put my hands all over them.

Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.

I needed to be able to hear the mix before you do - that's when I came up with the "peek-a-boo" system.

The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69.

That diversity of production styles and diversity of lyrical structure - I miss that.

I used to travel 200 days of the year. I had to calm it down because I have a 17-year-old daughter going on 30, and a 23-year-old son. I want to be around for them.

There's no such thing as a perfect historical film.

A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!

You have to live intentionally as one with a unique purpose and determination.

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.

And you know, I agree to everything:I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

Getting one of the weakness points of your enemies, could be your winning and your enemies' destruction

Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americans got Model A's and automobiles.

Can't one human being not like another human being? Can't we all just not get along?

It is radical for a woman to choose to survive and to choose to eat anything.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.