I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it.

I'm treating every day as a special one and trying to live in the moment.

Treat every person you interact with, with the same sort of attention and respect which you hope they will give to you.

Its important to follow your dreams whatever that may be.

There're always some notorious people in the crew who are doing crazy things, but I try to keep it a little more low-key. My crazy thing is always just the show and putting all my energy into it.

My eclectic taste allows me to do something unique and not box myself in.

Money isnt what drives me, getting fans who truly understand what I'm about and want to see me live is where my head is at.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

I love having fans of all ages but it's especially cool for me to have young fans. I hope to be a role model for kids who want to follow their dreams.

My fans are the only people who will be with me forever, all else comes and goes.

It's easy to choose doing what you love when there are people out there supporting you.

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.

Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.