I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

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.

I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of.

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

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

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