I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.

My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.

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?

When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.

My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.