When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do in a fashion sense.

I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.

I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").