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.

I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

If I'm not passionate about it, I can't write it. I can't fake it.

Just be yourself, the minute you start being yourself youre gonna win.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.