The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time.

instinct leads me to another flow

If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.