I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'

Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

I can't live and hold the camera, someone gotta take this

The weekend's here, started it right. Even if I only get part of it right.

Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight, party tonight.

I don't talk to the groupies. I talk to nice, upstanding women. The groupies don't get my attention. It's the women that I like.

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.