My parents were Christian.

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.

I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.

When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin' you, it's about the fact that you're a great man, that's all it's about.