When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.