“Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he’s got his heart in the right place.”

I’m not just talking about what you put on a record – even just walking into a store and how you interact with the person behind the checkout counter.

Like you’d feel if you have a cold, so I didn’t really think it was anything.

People need to be more aware of how they’re affecting people.

When I was younger, I felt like I could say anything and it was funny.

Some real well thought out stuff. But I don’t know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

I won’t sell my songs for no TV Ad.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

Like you’d feel if you have a cold, so I didn’t really think it was anything.

I think every person has the ability to affect change…through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people.

I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn’t have said sampling.

It’s pretty easy to see that… wealth doesn’t really equal happiness.

Just keep putting out music.

We just play whatever we’re into. For a while there, we weren’t listening to too much rap stuff, ’cause there wasn’t anything interesting.

I’ve started to realize that what I say and do does affect everybody around us.

You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you’re remembered that way.

To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else.

Do not look at life’s long sorrow; see how small each moment’s pain.

I just said, “This is something to get on board with.”

I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.

You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man.

The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this:

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.