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.

Honey isn't really that good for you.

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’

I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect.