I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.

As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.

Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.

The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.

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.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.