Most people don't know what it's like to be poor, and to live in poverty. To live in a situation where everything around you - every opportunity is shut. You don't have anyone showing you how to rise above, you don't have any resources, and everyone around you is losing that battle too, then yeah, you want something that you have control over that makes you feel like you're running your brain for a minute.

Anybody who's putting out records is probably not making money at it.

I've got a real love-hate thing with the saxophone. I've got to be careful.

As strange as it may sound, I think I'm a lot more at peace with the fact that you can't guarantee you're going to be all right [at] any time.

Believe me, man, there are people who are going to have way more troubles mentally than I am.

We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

I actually like taking a mic and plugging it into an amp and giving it to a kid to see what they do, 'cause they flip out. They're way more in touch with their voices than we give them credit for.