When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

There's a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I'm a street cat. I've belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

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.

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

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.