Growing up in Houston, the music scene is super boring.

I was working with Jay Z while I was still learning how to be who I was about to become.

I never produce a song, whether writing it or making a beat, and give it a wack visual or wack performance. I'm like a trifecta.

I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It's very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It's not really based on a label anymore. Everything is pretty much in the control of the artist. Which is amazing.

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would do if they didn't have the rent money. Luckily, we were never evicted. But my father was unemployed most of the time.

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.

In college, girls would come up to me: 'I want your calves.' It just makes me laugh. I guess people pay a lot of money to have the types of bodies athletes have.