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."

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

Hundreds of young barefoot, long-haired, newly converted believers flocked to the church, and they brought their guitars with them.

Let me be kind and loving today because tomorrow is far far away.

Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

I'm dying, and I'm having fun.

I believe in order to understand

He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that's what Carlos says, although that isn't saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash.

When every action of yours is preceded by witnessing, then every move you make in this world becomes perfect and significant.

Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness.