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

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" I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums. "

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

" 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. "

" You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40 percent of your local artists; don't suck up to major labels to the point where you neglect your own locale. "

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

" Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope. "

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

" 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. "

" Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly. "

" 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. "

" The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat. "

" 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. "

" The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it. "

" Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that. "

" I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day. "

" 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. "