When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.

It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.

You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street.

You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.

My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.