I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

I know my voice is very distinctive because in a room of 100 people, my voice is always picked out.

Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music.

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

I did a lot of drugs. I didn't do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice.