Mystikal

I come from an era of music when it had heart and soul.

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

All you have to do is put me in front of the people and put the beat in front of me, and the rest is history.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.