We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.

Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family.

Real religion is no religion at all.

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.