Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on.

A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are.

I want to be someone who is respected and not just in terms of my music. I want to be respected in terms of the way that I treat people... Music is my creative outlet in terms of expressing what is important to me; what has importance, what has a value. And I wanna be respected for that.

I wanted to get clean. I knew that my highest potential, the place that I was most spiritual, the place that I was the most rich in terms of my life, and my livelihood, and my art and my creativity, was when I was sober.

Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on.

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.