There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

Gun violence is real. People don't come back.

You've got to remember that 25 is a great time because, you know, you're passed that 21 thing and it's a high point, a high peak, in life where you're old enough to say what you have discovered, but you're still open to discovering more.

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.

Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

I am not a normal man.