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" I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things. "

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" I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment. "

" When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive. "

" I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock. "

" You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it. "

" I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term. "

" There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.' "

" You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box. "

" Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives. "

" Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party. "

" Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there. "

" Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow. "

" I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States. "

" Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it. "

" What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records. "

" My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being. "

" I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. "

" A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. "

" The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments. "

" People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white. "

" I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality. "

" One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy. "

" I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for. "

" Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid. "

" I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy. "

" Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them. "

" I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle. "

" I think governments are the cancer of civilization. "

" People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection. "

" Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people. "