I Always Say That You Define What

Making Your Moves, Paying Your Dues, Chasing The Cool.

The Rewards We Get By Being Those Weird Guys Going Against The Grain To Me Are Way More Massive Than Selling A Million Billion Records. I Like Climbing Mountains Or Going On Undersea Dives For Whales And Stuff Like That.

In Chicago, You Have An Absence Of Strong Family Units, And That Absence Gets Filled By Gangs. You Have A Failure In The School System, After-school Programs And Other Social Programs To Help Keep Kids Off The Streets. Amnesty International Speaks To That In Some Way, By Keeping These Issues In The Forefront.

Success Is A Very Dangerous Thing And I Think We Have To Be Very Careful About When We Dictate What Success Is For Somebody Else. Because You Don't Know What It's Like.

My Father Had Been In The Military And He Was A Weapons Specialist, So He Had An Affinity For Weapons But Also For The Discipline Of It. He Taught Us How To Shoot When We Were Young. He Opened Up Karate Schools In The Worst Parts Of The City, On Purpose, And Then He Would Systematically Clean Out A Three-block Radius, All Of The Gang-bangers And Drug Dealers And Everybody Of Nefarious Character.