Try to find like-minded people. Don't choose your friends based on the outside, choose your friends based on your similar views or something that you can learn from.

My advice to young people is ask older people questions and don't be afraid.

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.

There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.