You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.

My greatest competition is, well, me.

You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.

I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.

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.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.