I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.