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" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

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

" I think governments are the cancer of civilization. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "