Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music.

I'm lookin' at these Disney characters, these young girls coming out looking like, little whores.

[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.

I can't eat processed food.

Youth. The fact that, in the mid-'90s, guys like Lee Fields gave me and all these young people the chance to do backup. I was in my 30s, but some of those guys were still teenagers. Others were 22 and 23 - babies, all of them.

Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.