I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

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 diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

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

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.