Someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?

Before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.

Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.

Well, right now, my music is - it's just happy. I'm not in a relationship, but I know who I am now. I have wisdom. I have the power of knowing who I am. That's huge.

My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world

For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I'm Really Proud of My Country

There are no mistakes in life, and it's not about anybody being able to judge you.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

I tried to be strong in the face of obstacles.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

I never draw blood on a first date.

The weatherman is always right. It's just his timing that's off.

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

I'm in love and I'm happy. Don't you see it?

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

Ignorance is temporary. Stupidity, unfortunately, is permanent.

Oh won't you stay Stay a while with your own ones Don't ever stray Stray so far from your own ones 'Cause the world is so cold Don't care nothing for your soul That you share with your own ones.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!