My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.

When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.

I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

The dude in red's back at the pole, Up North where everything is cold. But if he were right here tonight, He'd say 'Merry Christmas! And to all, a good night!'

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.

The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.

Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

I like being close to the bats.

When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.

I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.

When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

My husband is the most honest, kind, hard-working, and genuine person, and I honestly don't know how I could ever live without him.