Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.

Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.

I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.