Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.

Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won.

For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.