Music Quotes

New Year Day song is about the pain many of us have experienced this past year.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.

I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would’ve been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.

I’m one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

There is a famous musician, Peter Gabriel, who has used my voice in the movie, ‘The Last Temptation of Christ.’ He used my song in the background.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.

My mom is the first female rapper I’ve ever known. I’m thinking, like, ‘Okay, yeah, this is normal. Everybody’s doing this.’

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.