When I say I loved it, I don't mean I loved being hit. I just mean...there was some good in there, too. I am not going to call it all bad.

I had to survive a lot. I didn't premeditate my life. Life just happened as it did. And I had to figure it out as I went along.

No one country can confront them alone…the only way forward is together.

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.

Before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.

Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.