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.

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'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.

I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!

It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.