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

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work

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

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

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

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.