I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.

It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.

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

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've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.

I've never really [written] something that was inspired.