I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

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."

This is where I belong. This is what I have always dreamt of.

You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.