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.

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

All of a sudden you're like the Bin Laden of America. Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I'm going through.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

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.

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.