Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.

The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

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

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.

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