Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

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."

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.

I believe in status symbols.

You know what’s more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.

Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.

I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

Our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is really a look back to the very creation of Microsoft.

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.