Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that the word rock means white and the word rap means black.

I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, "Wow, I was destroying myself." But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture.

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back.

You can't just sing the song and live another life, you know. It's really difficult now because that's not what it's about. It's pop and pop just says that we could be actors. We could sing about stuff and not believe in it. It could be absolutely fraudulent and it doesn't really matter.

Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.