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.

Men lie, women lie, numbers dont

Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time.

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

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

Everyone needs a chance to evolve.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.