New York has changed a whole lot. For worse I think because back when I was growing up in New York we were always the trendsetters. I don't care if it was from clothes to hip-hop music, to whatever. Right now New York is a bunch of followers. A lot of them are. It's really not the same.

There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.

I think hip-hop needs a little bit of diversity.

Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

People in the U.S. always got to be spoon-fed. If it's something to difficult to understand, they don't give it a chance. They want something real simple that they can sing along with and play in the clubs and that's about it. In the UK, their whole mind set is completely different.

I really don't have to answer to nobody.

If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.