I'm As Involved As I Can Be.

When I'm Wearing Too-high Heels And Swaying My Hips, I Do That Sharon Stone Kind Of Thing - She Has The Sexiest Walk, A New York Cool Thing That Throws You Back.

When We Understand That We Are A Human Race, What Affects You Affects Me, What Affects Her Affects You And So On And So On, Then We'll Look At This Thing [hiv/aids] For What It Really Is. It's A Disease That's Out To Kill All Of Us. What Will Make It Continue Is Our Prejudices, Our Ideas About It, And The Fact That We Don't Look At Ourselves As One Giant Community.

Yeah, I'm From Jersey; It's Almost Like I Was Automatically Born A Nets Fan.

Award Shows, Like The Grammys, Were Tough On Us Early In Hip-hop, Not Even Televising Our Categories Or Splitting Them Up On Best Male Or Female Or Any Of That. We Had To Earn Them.

My Mom Has Always Been My Champion. She Was Very Smart And Grounded. She Said, 'save Your Money. Pay Your Taxes. Don't Put Everything In One Basket,' But She Let Me Explore And Be Creative.