I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.

Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.

Everything takes place in a season. There was a season when that's all I did was listen to the music. Now I'm just in a place where I don't listen, I create. And if I do listen there are specific things that I listen to, and for specific reasons.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.

It's more important to be righteous than to be right.