In The 2000s, I Became An Artist.

I Hate Holidays Because It's The Quietest; It's The Most Deafening Sound In My Apartment.

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.

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.

I Was Born At A Very Crucial Time. I Consider 1968 To Be The Mason Dixon Line Between Pre- And Post-civil Rights Generation Ideas, Whereas A Lot Of People Born Before '68 They Kind Of Went Into That Moses Mentality. Like, I'm Not Going To Make It, You Know, I Don't Have Any Hope.

How Do You Plan A Rebirth? I'm Not Sure You Do. You Just Stand In The Darkness Until You Can't Endure It Any Long, And Then You Move Forward Until You're Standing In The Light.