If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.

That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble.

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

You can't just sing the song and live another life, you know. It's really difficult now because that's not what it's about. It's pop and pop just says that we could be actors. We could sing about stuff and not believe in it. It could be absolutely fraudulent and it doesn't really matter.

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.