I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve..

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak..

I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I….

To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, ….

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music..

Come a crisis, we want other people..

It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the….

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're g….

I always want to be prepared, 'cause you never know who's going to come to your studio..

I'm photographing all the time. I'm such a visual person and I don't want to miss that moment..

You want to make people relaxed..

To hell with safety. All I want to do is race..

On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change..

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before..

I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie..

Not everyone can or wants to go straight..

I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible..

Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picke….

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be..

My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role..

Everybody wants to have a goal - I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal. I can finally get to that goal. Then y….