Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.