“There is a community in hip-hop. It doesn’t seem like that anywhere else, except maybe in punk rock. But punk rock is tricky, because it has become such a pop thing. But in rap, there is still a feeling of community. Who are our peers? Rappers.”

An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.

They don’t want to see rap music. They don’t want to see the Beastie Boys. They don’t care what we’re doing. They want one thing and one thing only: that’s to see Madonna come on stage.

Educated: no. Stupid: yes. And when I say “stupid,” I mean stupid fresh.

In an era when information can be sent , it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation’s police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.

It’s hilarious, a bit crazy, and it should make anyone wonder why people put their careers in the hands of these idiotsand remember I’m one of them. If you have a child, make sure he or she reads this before starting at the bottom- anywhere.

My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn’t get me anywhere then at least it wasn’t because I tried to be something I’m not.

Why do we feel safe with that one person? Why would we follow that one person anywhere? Because that person is a leader.

Some people would say they never see me because I don’t go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.

You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere.

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.