Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.

It is there as it is, not in the past, not in the future, just in the present moment. To live in the present gives a person true happiness as well as the perception of being connected to the world.

A flower, no matter how beautiful, still has to grow in dirt.

Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein…

Do not forget to be good to yourself.

If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?

Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.

Books + friendship = book club

We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.