Van Hunt

“I'm not going to try to sell soul to the hip-hop generation unless I got some money behind me.”

“It's the most courageous and it's the kindest thing that you can do for someone - be honest with them.”

“I was about 14 and I was having a lot of problems with my mom at home, and she really wanted me to focus on school and basketball. But music was all I wanted to do. I felt out of time and out of step with everyone, because they were all into hip-hop and I was so into Sly Stone and Prince.”

“People associate me with Al Green and Curtis Mayfield, but these aren't people that I listened to growing up. I got into them much later.”

“The first two major label records I did what I wanted to do. It wasn't a problem until after I finished my part. They didn't understand I was an artist, a capable artist. When you're the money dealing with the talent, you need to let that talent develop, your job is to figure out how to sell it.”