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"With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant."
"I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know."
"If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say."
"Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places."
"I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it."
"I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you'll reap in abundance."
"My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful."
"If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay."
"I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist.""
"I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?""
"I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me."
"We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public."
"I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art."
"Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile..."
"Everything takes place in a season. There was a season when that's all I did was listen to the music. Now I'm just in a place where I don't listen, I create. And if I do listen there are specific things that I listen to, and for specific reasons."
"I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it."
"I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others."
"For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!"
"I like a brother that cuts to the chase."
"I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing."