Fear is a healthy part of success.

The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.

My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles

Sexy as she wanna be and she dancing next so close to me. I said please excuse, you steppin on expensive shoes.

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song.