When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.

It ain't no joke when you lose your vinyl.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.

Music touches places beyond our touching.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.

Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.

We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves.

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.