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.

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.

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

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

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.

You do not see fairies through the eyes, you see them through the heart and that took me a long time to learn because I was always trying to see them through my eyes.

You are afraid of your own empowerment as much as those around you are of you becoming empowered.

God has two thrones, on in the highest heavens, the other in the lowliest heart.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

I get a lot of credit I don't deserve.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.