It's ninety-six degrees in the shade... Before I catch blood on my blade.

I'm not a huge fan of covers in general, but collaborations always make them more fun - they're sort of neutral territory.

I've been college, but to be truthfully frank, weed is knowledge because it makes me think

I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.

I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns.

Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.

I'm not sayin I'm a pothead, cause I'm not. I'm just sayin that I smoke a lot.

My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

I enjoy watching children interact with the world, the way they engage their environment without any filters, learned models, or cynicism.

Do some good to the ghetto, Mr. Kris Kringle. Come and stay awhile, kick it with God's Angels. Take and acknowledge my wisdom and understand That Santa Claus is a black man.

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

That house was no longer my home.

How I define patriotism, a knife, a riffle and some hand-gernades.

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

Originality provokes originality.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.