Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

It was just playing music. I didn't have any intention for it. I knew that I enjoyed making this kind of music. ... It was really just purely for the joy of doing it. It was a lot of fun.

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.