I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.

God loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.