I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.

After school I tell Kate that, as much fun as it sounds, I can't go check out the cup stacking team.

Poetry was the maiden I loved but politics was the harridan I married.

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

Who decides when the applause should die down? It seems like it's a group decision; everyone begins to say to themselves at the same time, "Well, okay, that's enough of that."

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.

It's just so hard when you have a connection with someone and they just leave and you don't know if you'll ever see them again.

Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.