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When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

You always rebel what your parents want you to listen to.

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'

The more parents hate the music, the more their children will like it. It had been true with Elvis, and it had been true with the Rolling Stones. 'Straight Outta Compton' was music that parents could loathe with a passion. I knew we had a massive hit.

A lot of kids have parents who say, 'Music is hard; maybe you should come up with a Plan B.' Whenever I hear that kind of 'advice,' I think it's bad parenting. I was lucky to have a parent who assured me it was a possibility to pursue music.

Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.

You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.