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

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

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.

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

The sign of the victorious communities are that they forbid evil

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

The people of Aleppo have suffered like no one else for so long. There has to be a political solution.

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.