When you're in the Caribbean, you're having the best time, you're hearing a lot of beats and rhythms that you don't hear in New York sometimes, 'cause then you come back and it's snowing.

When I go into the studio... I want it to say something, but at the same time, I want the chicks to dig it. It's got to be sexy.

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

I was tired of hearing people complain all the time. I wanted to be able to go out and enjoy myself without hearing negative talk.

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.