I think all of this—The Roots and DJing included—was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.

The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

There is a whisper of light, if you can hear Louder than sound of darknessyou never fear

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Share your joy with everyone in your world.

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.