Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.

My parents were Christian.

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

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

Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot.

It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?

I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!