“I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.”

“But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.”

“Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.”

“Music and the music business are two different things.”

“What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.”

“Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.”

“I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.”

“What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.”