I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

I'd like to connect with music like I did in the beginning. To have that intensity again, to have a song that comes on at 1 o'clock in the morning and it's the premiere song at that point. It's almost magic because, when you condition for it, it doesn't take long for you to write the content that everyone in the world can agree on at one time.

I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I'm saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain't gonna sugarcoat it. Because I give them the truth.

I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.

They don't understand the process I went through and how much I had to believe in myself.

A Recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.