Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.

Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with.

If we can't come together, and have conversations and understand our biases and understand that hate, none of us are really the good guys here.

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

I consider what I do soul music, it's music that is concerned with the soul.

I tried to give some warnings early on to a lot of my Christian followers that mixtape really wasn't targeted at the church so they would be able to understand. I wanted to wrestle with some things that I know people outside of the church wrestle through. When It comes to the church I just want to edify.

You don't need to be accepted by everyone else to get reaccepted by the one who made you.