There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

I only entertain very close friends.

That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to be perfect. Sometimes it's going to be controversial. Sometimes it's going to piss a couple of people off. Sometimes it's going to motivate people. Sometimes it's going to inspire.

Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.

You ain't heard that we swallow guys?

At the end of the day, the Lord knows I have no malice in my heart. But I've got tattoos, and I still fornicate.

As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.