Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.

I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.