Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

We can even sing off key, but if it's produced properly it can be a hit.

I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc.

The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.

As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.

Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.

But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.

For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.

I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now.

For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times.

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra.

I don't want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it all. I also want to learn to DJ house music in my own fashion.

I knew there was a way to blend records together, but I didn't know how to. This was haunting me when I was in my teens. In my frustration, I decided to start experimenting with electronics. I tested the torque factor on different turntables. I had to figure needles out. See, there are two kinds, elliptical and conical.

I named myself Flash many years ago, as I loved the cartoon. Then my own fans said that I should call myself 'Grandmaster,' because of the way I operate turntables. I put the two together and that was it.

I want to go to - what's that hot country with a lot of money? - Dubai.

I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played.

I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers.

I'm not big on snacks, but I if do, I like a few M&M's.

My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not to touch it. But I'd go back and touch it anyway. I gained a respect for the turntables when I was a kid. When I was a teenager, I came up with a 'cueing system' to work the turntables because they didn't have it at that time.

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldnt dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldnt buy those types of records.

I'm a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don't lie.

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

I do have a lot of alumni in Washington.

Delhi is perhaps the best place to be left a bit undiscovered to put for later because it will come looking for you to your city like a city in love to ask when youll coming back. Every visit to Delhi is a reminder for you to visit again soon.

To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.

My soul is still Irish.

Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.

For every action there is an equal and opposite re-action. A repercussion.

In a hamlet or in a forest in the deep water or on the dry land wherever venerable persons dwell that place is delightful.

I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.

I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.