I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing.

All my children are my babies. They're our babies.

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.

Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.

Contrary to what people are saying, you can't go by what people say, but by their spirit.

Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?