I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

Take it off, baby, take it all off. I want you the way you came into the world.

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.

Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.