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

I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.

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

I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

Just gimme some stage. I'll make my own way once I get there.

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.