I feel like my purpose on earth is to help other people and give good advice about some of the same things I have gone through.

Young kids out here see what's on TV and feel like they can start rapping. They think rappers are rich and really have their own jets and Bentleys, but in lot of cases that stuff is rented.

I like so many different genres of music that I guess it would be hard for me to pick one person who inspires me when so many people inspire me to make good music.

It's a beautiful thing to build your own fan base and pay the bills knowing that you're staying true to your music at the end of the day. I look at life like this, the sky's the limit!

Half of the reason why people aren't able to succeed in life is because they hypnotize themselves into believing that they can't accomplish their goals, it's a mind game they play with themselves.

I would describe myself as a hard worker, very humble and focused on whatever it is that I put my mind to.

I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.

The only reason I started using samples was because people talked about me not sounding like Kanye or The Heatmakers.

I just look up to anyone who made music back then because you really had to be a musician. There were no samples or drum machines. Those people back in the day paved the way for people like me.

God is my spiritual guide. Half the music I come up with I really don't know where it comes from.

You can't have somebody guide you through everything - some things you have to learn on your own.

We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become.

You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

Conflict begins at the moment of birth.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.

He's carrying his left leg, which, to be honest, is his only leg.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.