I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

I play my enemies like a game of chess

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

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

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.

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.