If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.

You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, "If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball..." Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not.

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.