When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what you're thinking while you're making the song. I don't want to know what the artist is thinking.

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.

What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different than discriminating against blacks. It's discrimination, plain and simple.

I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars...

Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.

In trouble waters I had to learn how to float

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.