I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?

I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.

When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin' you, it's about the fact that you're a great man, that's all it's about.

I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.

It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.

I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.