I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.

I need something bigger than myself. And the only thing that can be would be a child. Someone who would help me live even more selflessly.

Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.

I'd like to have and adopt children. I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.