When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

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.