Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

All the women in my family were very creative.

Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.