I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.

Things don't really go that well when people get back together.

Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

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

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

I wouldn't say I fear the future.