My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.

Its always my goal to raise the bar with each record I put out.

If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves.

The origin of the word fail means to stop functioning. So as long as you haven't stopped, you haven't failed.

Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

... the love of money is the root of all evils." - John de Alençon, Pg, 64

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.

The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.

I've challenged (Donovan McNabb) to whatever athletic endeavor he wants, but he laughs it off

I think it went Twilight, Welcome to the Rileys, New Moon, Runaways, then Eclipse, so it was like one of those movies between each Twilight movie.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best - and most brilliant - self.