Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

I talk to my kids about my mother’s energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that...

I live by the code ‘Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;’ for me, it’s always about being the nicest kind of guy.

I’m a suspicious mulatto, which means I’m too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.

For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn’t enough for me to write a book. It wasn’t enough...

It’s all about the mood I’m in and the scene I’m writing. ‘Cause work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. So I don’t listen to any music that’s not an...

I don’t know, I think that if I had any regrets, that would cancel out the great people that I have in my life. All the tough stuff that I’ve gone through that I don’t...

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

I’m a half-breed. You know, I’m Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York City, and I stood out amongst my friends in my community. I was...

I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called ‘The Pen,’ and I – you know, I had a crush on a...