We look so much on color that we forget about the soul.

But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for it.

Toronto's one of my favourite places. If I were to move anywhere out of California, it would be Toronto. Definitely.

My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.

It's easy to forget who you are.