My son is a hip-hop producer.

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

You want your parents to say, "Hey, I'm proud of you." When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say, "Hell, I don't need their approval. If I get my music right, I'll have everyone else's approval." I didn't understand it then, but I now know that's what happened to me.

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

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

You have to know that your real home is within.