 I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it. |
| Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing. |
| I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school. |
| Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. |
| Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. Topics: Computer |
| Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. |
| It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us. |
| 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. |
| I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen. |
| I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time. |
| Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one. |
| I grew up listening to old soul. |
| I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen. |
| I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word. |
| I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me. |
| From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it. |
