If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.

You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, "This is the one!"