You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.

It takes a community to start a revolution.

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.

My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

The people who strive for failure are encouraged by those that failed before them. To do the same

Christmas is not only where you find it

It's modern-day slavery.

Some people are quick to challenge others but refuse to look in the mirror and challenge themselves.

I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

Wherever you are, I am there also.

Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.