Better Think While It's Still Legal.

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.

I Started Performing At Two Or Three On A Tape Recorder, One Of Those Little Flat Recorders Where You Just Push Play And Record.

I'm A Product Of Its [american] Teaching, Of Its Thinking, Of Its -isms, Of Its Religion, Of Its Education. I Am Conditioned, Raised And Developed By America; I Am America. And As It Changes, My Thoughts Also Change. Because No Matter What I Believe, What The Powers-that-be Believe Will Affect Me.

Hip-hop Is Bigger Than The Government.

We Were All Born, And We All Came To The Music Business With Everything We Had. Some Of Us Just Don't Get A Chance. Now There's A Lot Of Other People Like Myself, Indeed, Who Are Getting Heard Worldwide. That Gives Other Artists A Chance.