I remember when it was just the three Emcees and then Flash put Mr Ness down.

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.

We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah.

I remember when it was just the three Emcees and then Flash put Mr Ness down.

Thats why my biggest problems were with LL and Run.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.

My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .

I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.

Getting high off life is more than enough and peer pressure aint peer pressure when a boy is tough.

In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.

In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

You don't make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable.

Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us.

Valuing the road over the goal was a Taoist goal in itself.

I don't think my parents know what I do.

Study first, play afterwards.

Hospitals are great places and you can learn from them but you dont necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldnt treat pregnancy as a disease.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.

For often when one is asleep there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.

Life is short running makes it seem longer.

I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

I think that Christians who have an interest in filmmaking need to deepen their love for cinema. To be honest, that's what I think has been missing historically from the Christians who want to succeed in the Hollywood industry.

I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time in what you could consider solitary confinement.

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

The Tunisian people will not bow. We will stay united against terrorism until we wipe out this phenomenon.

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

Abortion may bury our children, but it can never bury their memory.