Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and NWA and I never went out and shot nobody.