Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.

We need to do stuff we've always done, even though you might not like it.

All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.

Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.

Every piece of music is not for everybody.

There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared, ' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing, ' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

Ian was too Captain America for my taste.

Every author loves to read his own words.

Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.

The unknown is the governing principle of war.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.