Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive - but that was totally subconscious.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.