I didn’t end up going bankrupt… I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it’s not...

People don’t understand it’s really a hard thing, because I was here in the early ’90s and… basically I was gone from over here. I’ve been doing my thing over in the States, but it’s...

It wasn’t until ’94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn’t about the money.

My prediction is that y’all gonna hate on the style we create, straight 2008.

I really feel like I’ve been given a second chance and to see so many people coming out to embrace my new sound is a blessing. And a lot of people, after seeing the VH1...

I listen to the rock stuff, I like Bush and stuff like that. Pop-wise, no I don’t listen to boy bands and stuff like that at all, ever. Never have, I know that’s mostly what...

I don’t hate on any artist actually, not on boy bands, on nothing, it’s just music and if you enjoy it then enjoy it. I just have my own opinion of what I like and...

I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It’s not designed for any age group. It’s not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit...

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what...

With radio limitations as far as length of songs and content, sometimes if you are being conscious of that then that effects the outcome of a song.

I was playing a record company whore back in the days, a puppet. Everything was staged. I wasn’t really designed to be this novelty act; I was turned into one. When I first came out,...

Nobody knew the direction of the album until the very end. It was really amazing because we had no idea what we were going to come up with.

Shows have been sold out. It’s overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it,...

Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to...