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

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

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

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.

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

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.