It's better to look for the people that look like you and do something with them, create something new - the mainstream isn't that special anyways.

I always wanted to play with the sound, but I always wanted to do it in a respectful way, because I never lived in New York and I don't have a real connection to that scene.

To me, beauty is a lived thing.

I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.

There's top 40 R&B/hip-hop, which is probably sexy but you wouldn't listen to it for a musical awakening.

My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.

I always put my identity at the forefront of my music.

We have become so politically correct in this society it is causing us to become more and more incorrect

Without nothing, everything would be nothing.

Quit hating and trying be like the next man. Get on your own grind & be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job or whatever just do you.

I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.

In Taiwan there's a saying: Raising a child is more important than giving birth. Raising a child is greater.

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

Don't confuse wealth with success.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.

If you can't be disciplined, be clever.