It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.

While there's currently great turmoil, there is even greater opportunity for US to work together to transform our community. Far too many of our children are fatherless, far too many of our mothers are standing in the prison waiting rooms and far too many of our young people feel hopeless.

You're gonna be your best salesman. If you don't sell yourself, nobody else is gonna have a better time with it than you. You've gotta get up for it, every day.

Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is unfamiliar territory so, here and now, that's more difficult.

You are not defined by your environment unless you allow yourself to be.

When you ask me who I look up to and who I can admire for their style right now, I have to choose from people that represent what I represent stylistically.

Hawaii ain't a bad place to work.