My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.

I had always been a free spirit, and always gotten what I wanted.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.

You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try to capture that exactly again.

I had $20 million in the bank, girls are following me all over the f - place, people call my name everywhere I go. What would I change? And then one day you get onstage and you see two little girls who look like they are 11 years old sticking their tongues out and pulling their bras down and you quit touring. That's what happened to me.