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

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

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.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

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