Musician

You can't put my talents in a box because my talents have put me in a mansion, and I'll be damned if anybody in the world can tell me what I can or cannot do, because they're scared to do it themselves.

Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.

I'm the kind of guy who'll go to a courthouse and get married, but for women, it's different. It means a lot to them.

I know who I am, and I know my story, and the things that I talk about are authentic and real, and I always say this: I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.

I was really scared to make this album and to make this song. Because I didn't want to talk about it. For me, it's even deeper than just '1-800.' 'Everybody' as a whole... I was terrified.

I was a little nervous that people wouldn't take to 'Under Pressure,' because my style and what I embodied had previously been the braggadocious '90s fun rapper type. Before this album, I didn't rap about my life much.

If you listen to a woman, you'll know what she wants.

Black is beautiful.

I'm not gonna do the same album over and over and over again.

I turn down really well-paid shows all over the world because I want to spend more time with my wife and myself.

I enjoy certain things, but I don't go out; I don't party. I just like watching movies, making fun music, and having a good time hanging out with the people who helped me get here - I'm a really simple guy.

Everything I do creatively is never for money.

Women are as precious as they are stronger than any man that I have met.

I don't know how I'm really perceived in the world.

Not to sound cliche, but some of the first things that I bought were for my homies and my team: making sure the people that helped me and ensured my security and safety during my come-up, while I was broke, had the opportunity to be okay.

You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.

Nobody knows this, but the first actual purchase, after I signed my deal and called my bank account and heard how much money was in there - 'cause I was so broke and hungry - was Taco Bell.

I'm proud to be biracial, and there's a lot of people that say things like, 'I don't see color,' and I completely understand that, but I think different is beautiful, but I think our difference shouldn't separate us, and for me in this era, in this time, in everything that we're going through, my whole thing is just about unity, man.

I've invested a couple million into touring, and that's paid off.

Anybody who loves what they do, they're constantly doing it all the time. So I'm constantly working.