I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.

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."

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

If daughters couldn't soften a man, then nothing would.

Men know the damage a few words can do to girls’ hearts, and, idiots that we are, we swoon away and fall into the trap, excited because at last a man has set one for us

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.