You just can't take a day for granted. We had to work really hard for anything, and so that's been instilled in me. And I don't look at myself as better than anybody else, because in an instant everything can change.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.

I think we deserve people who really, really love us.

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