My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.

There's more to life than physical and material.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.