Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.

If you got a booty, you're going to dance to disco, funk, you know, whatever's going on. Funk is going to be involved in it.

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'