As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.