It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.