I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

The work is constant. There's a time for rest, but I don't believe in getting comfortable just because everyone says you've arrived.

I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.