I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."

I don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money.

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

We didn't invent music, so it's been here for a reason, and it has powers for a reason. So we should pay attention to it, because we might not know the clear answers but we should at least acknowledge that it is something there. To not be playin around with it.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.