The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.

My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.

I sit and talk to kids all day, because I feel like they carry the most wisdom.

What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.

I want you to recognize that I'm a proud monkey...

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

The more I started going through my own things in life, my faith got put to the test, and I had to believe that God is real in my heart, my lord and savior Jesus Christ, and I can't run from that. I'll always put that in my music or it just wouldn't be right. People can take it or leave it, I really don't care, because it's for me to put it on records. And I will continue to put more of a spiritual nature in my music.