When I perform, I'm just very much just being myself.

The difference between living and feeling alive, is using your fear as fuel to fly.

It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair.

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer, many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical, my grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood. My mother wrote an original song to teach me the days of the week.

You know how people are becoming sexually active way too early because they think it's going to be like it is in the movies. And people are not aware of their bodies in a certain way, because they are afraid to see themselves for who they are because they want to see themselves in someone else's shoes or whatever.

A person's either responsible for themselves or we're all responsible for each other.