I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

There are some people who are very powerful who I will never name, because I want to be able to work in this town.

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.

Truth and honesty is my thing.

I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.