I love traveling the States no matter what. I love traveling abroad, going to Japan and Australia. I love it. I never get tired of it.

The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

In suffering, we resurrect our souls.

Music Has No Religion Nor Gender. See Its a ___W___A___V____E___ and You Can Modify It !!! So What You Are Up To.. ?

Friendship and money: oil and water.

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.

I'm very relaxed. I'm very happy with my personal life.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

Sexy, to me, is the way you carry what you have. I have a big nose, but I rock it.

Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!