It was important that this album [Chain Letter] was an accurate reflection of me

It is a fight and struggle to just be yourself.

I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.

I always say, "When you know it's right, everything will fall into place."

I've never killed anyone but I've felt the emotion

If people wanted to fight me-because of my hair or because my skin was too dark-then I fought them

You never get another first time. I just remember being excited and that feeling of "Wow my dream is really coming true".

When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it

I remember the excitement of being a new artist. When up and coming artists ask me like, "Any advice you have for me?" I always say, "Take it all in because you'll never be a new artist again".

Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!

Problems come to our life not to give us pain, but to make us humble, kind, strong and fearless.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.

You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.

There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.

I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

I've been down a long road, but I promise you, it gets better.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.