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.

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.

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

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

You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance.

It's okay. We're all messed up in our own special way.

Am like a Fire Fly, Charged to Execute my Flames to Light this World up, therefore, you have to Kill me to get out my Flame.

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

People will turn to you, follow you, support you only as long as they are confident that you are doing your best.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock 'n' roll! They love it like you love Jesus.

Working for with someone who has no idea what they wanted... it would just be so all over the place, especially with something on this scale. You have to know what you want with this.