I Want To Be Necessary And Do

What I Take From Writers I Like Is Their Economy - The Ability To Use Language To Very Effective Ends. The Ability To Have Somebody Read Something And See It, Or For Somebody To Paint An Entire Landscape Of Visual Imagery With Just Sheets Of Words - That's Magical.

I Don't Have Advice For People On How To Dress. People Should Dress Based On What They Find Beautiful. My Best Advice: Keep Your Clothes Clean.

I Just Don't Think It's Very Dignified To Ask People To Like You. You Can Just Wind Up Being Somebody's Ottoman.

When People Say I Don't See You Enough, Well Just Because You Don't See Me Don't Mean I Don't Exist Or Just 'cause You Haven't Heard Me Don't Mean I Haven't Been Making Noise. But If I Keep Making Noise, You'll Pick Up.

Mos Def Is A Name That I Built And Cultivated Over The Years, It's A Name That The Streets Taught Me, A Figure Of Speech That Was Given To Me By The Culture And By My Environment, And I Feel I've Done Quite A Bit With That Name. [but] It's Time To Expand And Move On.