Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.

LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

I fell in love with hip-hop in the 90's to 80's music...

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.