I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

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."

When mice run, cats give chase.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

I love working out and when I'm home. I love the feeling of walking out of a class. That's just an addictive feeling for me.

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.