My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

I pray that god answers, maybe I'll ask nicer

I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.

Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.

With every song, all the elements have to work. First, the beat has to be great - you start there. You start with the music, and then the ideas follow. Then you start thinking of rhymes, and then you record it, and sometimes - this happens to me a lot - it doesn't come out as good as it did in my head when I first wrote it.

Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.