We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself

You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.

I think I started to approach time in a different way after the accident. Before I was more willing to give my time to people and things that I wasn't as interested in because somehow I allowed myself to be brainwashed into being forced to work with other people or on other projects that I had no interest in. So simply, the accident gave me the opportunity to do what I really wanted to do.