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

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

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.

I believe there should be no more drama, but it's everywhere you go. It's just about how you get out. You've gotta bob and weave because it's everywhere. How do I keep the drama low? It's about using your head.

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

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.