Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know there was a certain complex I had in the beginning that was just a little paranoid or a little...sensitive.

Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

He made you feel like you knew him. I think that honestly, 2pac was the greatest songwriter that ever lived. He made it seem so easy. The emotion was there, and feeling, and everything he was trying to describe. You saw a picture that he was trying to paint.

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.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.