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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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound. "

" 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. "

" 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. "