I focus more on the music and my message; I'm not a party type of guy.

I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. Anything you get into, you should research it and figure its roots and try to really be a real strong part of it.

I'm not better then anyone because of what I do, who I am and where I come from.

If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research it and find the history of it; and history is so important, history is everything.

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.

We were all anti-Reagan, we were all politically-aware, we were all anti-war and things like that. These days a lot of the newer bands don't even really talk about that sort of stuff anymore.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.

I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.

Emerson:bite me Whitne:you wish

We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.