LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.

If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine.

If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it.

You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.

No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.

Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.

I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people.

I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.

We don’t have to like each other. We just need to respect each other.

I wasn't a club kid. I wasn't an artist. I was just a foreigner, trying to soak it all up. I had quite a lot of fun.

Nothing speaks louder than your heart. Listen to what it's telling you.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.

Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.

In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.

My hair dries straight naturally, so I'm always trying to find anything to give it volume or give it a little bit of bounce.

Nobody in the world could have told me I wasn't gonna be a rapper. So, yeah, I always knew I was gonna be one.

I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.