Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

When music turned into being like candy - what people don't realize is, yes it's candy, but candy has long-term effects if you're just eatin' it as your main meal. And that's a problem, 'cause if you got music that keeps comin' at you, that keeps coming like a piranha, coming and rippin' at your soul, it's like yeah, I'm takin' this in, but there's not much of me left. Then you'll be lookin' for something outside of music to satisfy you, or take you away.

Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

The minute I get swelled up about something, something has always brought me back down to earth.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.