It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.

You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.

It takes a community to start a revolution.

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

Daring to be kind is a sign of strength, not weakness.

The timing of events is a splendor of wonder.

Discipline is when we limit ourselves, put borders around ourselves.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

If you’re not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

The enemy is stupid: he believes that the enemy is us, even though it's him!

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.