Common

Common: Cats would come up to me and say, 'Man, you ain't getting the love that you deserve.' I'd say, 'Don't sweat it, man, it's gonna come. The fact that you even know about me means it's already happening'

Common: When cats say, 'Man, you're getting too old to play hip-hop,' I'm like, 'No, not really, because hip-hop is just learning what it is as a genre.' When you think of artists like Prince or Paul McCartney or Stevie Wonder, they're still making music. I think of myself like a jazz musician: I went and saw Roy Haynes, and he's 80 years old and still playing drums. I could be 79 and still free-styling

Common: (On the song The People)Kanye and I started this album(Finding Forever) when he was on tour, and we were in Melbourne when he found a record that had that 'People' sample. He spent a long time that day chopping it up, and when he finally got it the way he wanted it, it was a piece of music that just made me feel like, 'Thank you, God, this is such a blessing!' It felt like a Common song, and once he made that beat, it just enabled me to get this off my chest and say, 'This is what I'm about: I'm the voice of the people