Rap is not music, it's talking.

Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

In my songs, I try to look through someone else's eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than a message.

You can do whatever you like with my image, my music, remix it, re-release it, whatever... just never make me boring.

I think the best duets are those where there's a dialogue back and forth, and then the two singers go into a thing together.