It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

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."

The nation... doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

Artists live with God – but give their little finger to Satan. I sleep with the angels and dream of the devil.

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

I'd like to be a bit less pale because I feel like I look sort of ill sometimes.

Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.

Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.

Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.