The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.

Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

I haven't really ever seen a big budget Hollywood film with African music. Most of the time, it's just Hollywood's perception of what African music is.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.