I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

When I think about the biggest studios in New York, they're owned by people that are not musicians or artists, and artists come in and spend their money there, and they'd rather do that, as opposed to getting the headache. So they pay someone else to get the headache.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.