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.

You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.

I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

I play my enemies like a game of chess

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.

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!