As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

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

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.

I tell myself time heals. It really does.

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

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