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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

'Barsaat' was a wonderful experience, but it took a long time in the making, and that got very tedious.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.