When you go to Carnival every year, you bounce to, you-know the different music that make it to Carnival in Trinidad. It don't matter about the country you're from.

I know country people who have The Carnival.

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

For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.

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.