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.

If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.

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 want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!