I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard get me wild.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Oh I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am my views my perspective things I love things I hate my convictions my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

First of all the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

When I was a kid I was following black soul music.

Hip-Hop isn't just music it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts but I never noticed.

If you want to make beautiful music you must play the black and the white notes together.

The other two things are... well I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees and the more romantic the better.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.