Always keep things in perspective.

I am going to do as much as I can do, because I hate to do anything and not give my all.

I was hanging out with some of what my mother would consider the wrong kind of kids. With no direction, no motivation. I would hang out in the lunchroom all day, or the handball courts

After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.

Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.

Do you. Just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be every day, and don't compare yourself to anyone else or worry about what they're doing.

I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me.

Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

I got my bearings, I began to focus. My mother was very supportive. When I came back to New York I landed a job at Hot 97.

Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by.

Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.

Emulate greatness to be great.

Consciousness does matter. Matter is secondary. Consciousness is primary. Brain does not do consciousness, consciousness does the brain.

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

To fall in love with someone who does not love you back, is the cruelest, most unforgiving heartache I have ever experienced.

I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.

There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

Study everything, join nothing.