Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single...

Man, I don’t want to have nothing to do with computers. I don’t want the government in my business.

I figure, if the mind just ‘has’ to be busy,why not make up happy shit?

I’m not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

I don’t read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

Being honest is my job. That’s what music is for me.

I don’t have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables,It don’t have nothing to do with your new friend

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that’s cool. Let’s look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful...

I grew up listening to old soul.