In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.