When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.

There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

Life is obsession and so is reading :D

The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe.

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters and splashes. You had to learn how to read them.

I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.

When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."

Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder... It's all subjective. I'm kind of shy about it, but I'll take it.

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

I do make a conscious effort to bring energy every day. Have fun, keep stuff light, all of that stuff.