There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.