I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.

I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground rock tours. I've been on multimillion selling rock shows. I've been in the jam band thing, and both commercial and underground hip hop. Very few people listen to one kind of music.

I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.