I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.