I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging.

When your so focused on what people say, how can your really be focused on the music? If you're concerned with what someone says, you aren't working on a real record. You're working on something that's just for now, to please people this very second... because you don't believe in yourself.

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business

Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.