Nakedness of what you do is exactly who you are, and that's how it should come across.

You have a deeper connection with people who you have shared experiences with and shared pain.

The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.

I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well.

I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.

When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

I believe the things I love inwardly will be received by the right people outwardly. I believe that what I believe in will be received well. I try to keep that as a foundation to what I do.

Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.

I think when you're younger you have a more black-and-white view of things. You're more exclusively dedicated.

Be you, be true to your word, don't sell yourself short and don't waste your life worrying.

There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.

[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?

It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act.

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

You can't predict the future, but you can follow your dreams.

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved