When you finally find the courage to admit you have a problem, that's when you have some power over it. That's the first step. Otherwise you're just ….

It's not about going to church every week because you know there's a lot of people who go to church all of the time who aren't going to heaven. It's ….

I didn't set out like, "I'm gonna do this album, and I really want a #1 album." So it wasn't even on my mind like a goal to accomplish... but as soon….

Hip-hop culture itself has completely consumed everything involved in entertainment. When you think about basketball like the way those guys dress; I….

It's just an inspiring journey in itself to stop drinking this late in my career after abusing alcohol and to have this kind of success so late when ….

Just take it a day at a time. If you think, "I'm never drinking again in my life," you're setting yourself up for failure. But if you just think, "I'….

My dad struggled with cocaine addiction, and we actually went to rehab with him too. I remember having extensive talks with him about how I was wired….

"Tabernacle" was probably the easiest song I'd ever wrote because all I really had to do was rhyme the words since the whole story, front to back, wa….

Something that I can say, "I set out to do this, however many years ago, and now I did it." That's a new thing of mine too, is just speaking things i….

I don't like things to feel forced. I just let it flow, if it's not flowing I just wait a bit in the studio or I go home..

I'd clash with my dad over other things, you know, like difference of opinion and me getting testosterone, you know what I'm saying? Me feeling like ….

You can't take the heat, get ya ass out the kitchen Matter fact, take ya ass back in there and wash the dishes..

I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That wa….

Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it's going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball..

You can make your mind sharper, you can get sharper with time..

I don't think I ever would have had a problem being vulnerable or introspective but the problem with drinking is it's very hard to zero in on one par….

I think it's helped me evolve all around, as an artist and as a person. I think we need something, need something to believe in. We need something th….

The Lord givith and the Lord takith away. I was given a lot of signs from the universe and looking at it in retrospect made me feel like God was tell….

My big brother used to come home drunk and he'd clash with my dad and I just didn't want that..

I got caught cheating a bunch of times, well now I'm not drinking but you think just because I say, "Oh I'm not cheating on you" that that's good eno….

I feel like I'm at a point in my career where I'm looking for something else to sink my teeth into that's interesting to me, that I can do that I can….