Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe

I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they’re all the same as that coach.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

If you have power, you have to empower.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].