I used to travel 200 days of the year. I had to calm it down because I have a 17-year-old daughter going on 30, and a 23-year-old son. I want to be around for them.

I was reckless with records. I would pull them out by my fingertips. I would put my hands all over them.

Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.

I needed to be able to hear the mix before you do - that's when I came up with the "peek-a-boo" system.

The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69.

That diversity of production styles and diversity of lyrical structure - I miss that.

Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood.

There's no such thing as a perfect historical film.

A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!

Trust me, I write fiction.

In 2015 tattoos are more permanent than marriages

The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

Nothing is worse than what we can imagine.

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

A king should die standing.

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.