I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

I didn't mind working in the clubs, but I resented it being a club where pimps hang out. Because the music that I create is of a higher intellect than that. It not only encompasses pimps, but whores, ballplayers, executives... everybody.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.