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

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.

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.

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

Behind every smile there is love, thought, and action.

Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.

On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they'renot going to forget we visited them.

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

Experience God, don't raise a wall of dogmas between you and Him.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.

I've heard Donald [Trump]s ay this at his rallies, and it's really unfortunate that he paints such a dire negative picture of black communities in our country.

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!

Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.