I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.

As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.