Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.

That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.

It's okay to be a freak.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

Having a mate has given me that feeling of safety.