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

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

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.

We wait expectantly for what we hope for.

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

Today is the day you've been waiting for.

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

The meaning of life is to see.

We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

My only real daydreamy casting over the years has been Natalie Portman for Denna. She's an amazing actress, and Denna is going to be one of the hardest characters to pull off.

One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.

People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.