My rights, my wrongs, I write ’til I’m right with God.
We all get distracted. The question is, will you bounce back or bounce backwards?
Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.
What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn’t get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.
If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.
It’s easy to forget who you are.
The message I’m sending to myself – I can’t change the world until I change myself first.
Just let me be me, That’s the only way I know.
I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.
Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.
I’d rather not live like there isn’t a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it.
My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.
The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.
I’m standing on a field full of landmines, doing the moonwalk, hoping I blow up in time.
It’s the beauty in her. But when the makeup occurs, I don’t see it. All I see is a blur.
Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I’m not scared of who I am, and I’m not scared that I can’t be like you, and I’m good with just doing me, that’s when I found myself, as a man.
Don’t you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from.
The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it’s always been a war between the two.
You can’t change where you from. You can’t take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It’s gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.
I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.