I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white.'

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

I ain't looking back only forward.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

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.