Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.
Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.
I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy.
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.
Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.
When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.
That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!
I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.
I have a 15-passenger van, which is not fun to drive in L.A. ever.
You do anything long enough, and somebody will end up paying attention to it.
My friends always had bands, and we would play together.
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.
Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.
Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.
I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.
White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
