I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

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."

It's only forever... Not long at all.

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me to that little pro-am thing, but I'm not big enough.

Humor is man's greatest blessing.

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously.