Chuck D

“I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.”

“What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.”

“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.”

“I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.”

“You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.”

“You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be fr...”

“My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.”