If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

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.

Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.