I Hate Holidays Because It's The Quietest;

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

Part Of Me Would Just Like To Relax And Have One Job That Pays Me The Amount I Need To Survive. And Another Part Of Me Wants The Creativity That Comes Out Of Struggle And Frustration And Fear. It's A Never-ending Cycle, Which Must Be How I Want It, On Some Level.

I Don't Think Crack Happened By Accident. I'm Part Conspiracy Theorist, Because You Can't Develop Something That Dangerous And Have It Not Be Planned.

At The End Of The Day, I Don't Release Any Records That I'm Not Proud To Put My Name On. I Never Got To That Point.

Resistance Here Doesn't Mean Revolution. It Doesn't Mean Storming The Barricades. Resistance Means Using Art For The Things That It Does Best, Which Is To Create Human Portraits And Communicate Ideas And Forge A Climate Where People Of Different Races Or Classes Are Known To You Because They Make Themselves Known. In The Simplest Terms, Art Humanizes. It Opens The Circuit Of Empathy. And Once That Process Happens, It's That Much Harder To Think Of People As Part Of A Policy Or A Statistic. Art Reverses The Alienation That Can Creep Into Society.