I'm known for long colorful locs but I still don't take my hair too seriously. Changing it helps express who I am.

Tell me I can't so I can show you I CAN!

When you don't know how beautiful you are, you will always be in search of happiness.

Be careful of who and what you let into your space. Not everyone is worthy of your presence.

Let your work speak for you.Stay humble.And just DO the work.

There ain't a wrong time or a wrong place to flaunt. If you feel good, then go on and show it off!

I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment.

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Be true to your sacred self.

A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.

Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.

Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

A few more albums, a few more years, I'll be like Peter Petrelli in Heroes. I'll be some type of rap super-monster or something.

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.