It was absolutely killing me that I've spent the first 25 years of my life tryin' to avoid bullets. That was always the main concern. Don't go out late. Don't go to any shady neighborhoods. Don't hang in bars alone. Why? Because you wanna avoid bullets. So once I get to 35 then I was like "Woo, okay. Made it." And now there's a new warning. Now it's like strokes; I gotta watch my health.

I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.