“But the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.”

So I think we have a lot of room to grow and be a better society, and it’s a constant battle. It’s an exciting opportunity to be active.

I think it can be a lot more collaborative. People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change.

And when you perform and create this story, they’re chuffed – they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

I think you can find a lot of joy and inspiration through food.

Words just aren’t necessary a good enough opportunity to express.

As great as technology is, it still has it’s limitations, because it’s only a frame of the truth.

Find a partner, commit to taking action, and hold each other accountable.

We must humble ourselves and commit to routine and collective actions.

I really do believe that in order to overcome our environmental shortcomings.

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive.

It’s sort of a combination between that and having the foundation that my mother gave me.

So I feel like I’m really lucky to be alive in a time where there’s so much opportunity to disrupt and shake it up.

In terms of the way we’re governed, and the way we sort of become complacent.

I am not an artist except that when I envision a concept, I sometimes indulge it.

We’re like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I’ll die.

You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty.

The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood.

My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood.

Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.

Young Thug, he gave me all the jewels. He literally paid me to leave the neighborhood.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

Vrtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.