Questlove Quotes

According To My Parents, I Just Started Drumming When I Was Two. I Traveled With Them From Five To Seven On The Road, Playing Percussion. Between 8 And 12, My Dad Sort Of Prepared Me By Teaching Me Every Aspect Of Road Life.

Every Time A New Record Started, People Exhaled With Pleasure, Or Their Bodies Moved Automatically. I Really Started Getting High Off Of The Euphoric Exclamations. Every Record I Put On Was Like A Baptism.

I Prefer To Unwind By Djing. I Learned That From Mike D From The Beastie Boys. After A Show, He Would Dj. Once I Saw That, I Wanted To Do That. And Now Djing Is Like My Lifeline. I Love The Power It Represents.

My First Gig Was At Radio City Music Hall When I Was 13.

I Believe That The Only People Who Really, Truly Benefit From Any Of The Policies Of Republicans Are The Wealthy. I'm In That 1 Percent Tax Bracket, But I'm Not A Man Of Wealth.

I'm A 24-hour Tweet Machine, I'm A 24-hour Blogger. When There's No Pressure On Me, I Can Talk And Write And Lecture With The Best Of Them. But Put A Deadline On Me And I Start Getting Writer's Block.

I Think All Of This—the Roots And Djing Included—was Meant To Prepare Me For The Tonight Show.

I Do Secret Stand-up Shows Around New York. I Announce And Tweet This To Nobody - I Get Onstage And I Do A Quick Five Minutes.

Hip-hop Is Such A Disposable Art Form From A Business Standpoint. It Never Treats Its Artists As Art; It Never Treats Its Product As Art.

I Have A Lot Of Those 'forrest Gump,' I-was-there Moments.

During The 2008 Election, I Made Clear To The Obama Campaign That I Don't Think It's Wise For Me To Force My Personal Political Agenda On Anyone.

In Terms Of Being A 'sneakerhead,' There Was One Point Where I Was Obsessively Following Every Sneaker Blog. That's The Beauty Of Twitter: To Get The Heads Up On What's Coming Out.