I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.

I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.

People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're just the audience. You know, people will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. [But] they are really looking for something that's gonna speak to the world that they're living in. That's what people are looking for, but they're not finding it.