Look hard for ways to make little moves against destructiveness.
I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.
I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.
There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.
So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.
I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being level-headed.
I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that. So I think it will just take time. Old people have to die. Once the generation right under my Mom dies, we'll be fine.
I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
. . . a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
I know I'm the guy others will lean on.