The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.

I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.

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.

No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.

Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today

I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.