In trouble waters I had to learn how to float

I smoked some weed, and that's how I finished 'Izzo.'

You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music.

So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime.

I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.