I say what I have to say at the moment and when I don't want to say it anymore, then I won't.

There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.

When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for. And in life, not necessarily following directions helps you get certain places - because you go to the right school you can learn the right things, and you go to the wrong school you can learn the wrong things, so it just all depends. But school doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

I was never like, "Oh man, I want a Grammy and I'll do whatever it takes". Someone like that might not do what it takes to have a decent touring career, because they're in the studio trying to master whatever they're doing to win a Grammy.