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.

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 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.

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

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.

Personal Responsibility is something that you should do because it is morally right, legally required, etc.

To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.

Everybody, everybody wants to be loved

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

Because Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman.

Find the journey's end in every step.

Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]

Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.