Music should be some kind of nourishment.

I have to be conscious of what I'm sayin' because people are gonna come at me about this sh*t.

It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre.

Men have periods; they're called wars.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

I always tell people that I was fortunate I was able to come in with a group of men. We didn't come into the game with a group of boys. We were young then. So your cats keep you in check.