Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn't mean much without family.

Every moment is beautiful; delicious even! Every moment I'm learning and living in a way I never have before. Being present in a way I never have before. Existing in moments I never have before.

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.

How you look is your statement, because it's a claiming of yourself.

I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.

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