I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.

If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.

We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.

You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.