As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts.

I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

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

The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.

I don't worry cause, everything's gonna be alright.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.