My Parents Were Really Strict About Me

I Really Appreciate When People Use Their Fame And Their Voice For More Than Just Self-promotion, Starting A Dialogue About A Topic Or An Issue Much Bigger Than Themselves.

How Do You Plan A Rebirth? I'm Not Sure You Do. You Just Stand In The Darkness Until You Can't Endure It Any Long, And Then You Move Forward Until You're Standing In The Light.

What I'm Slowly Realizing Is That I Believe That Most Of Us Felt That We Could Relax A Little Bit After November 2, 2008, Because Of The Progress And The Spirit That It Took To Get Barack Obama In The White House. And What We Didn't Realize, Is That Was Really The Beginning. That Was Really The Beginning Of The Struggle And Not The End Of A Struggle, To Come From Colonial Times Through Slavery, Through The Jim Crowe Laws, Through The Civil Rights Period To The White House As, Like A Point A/point B Journey. Point B Of Course Being The End.

I Cannot Keep A Girlfriend Longer Than Seven Months. I Have 12 Jobs. I Don't Have Time For My Personal Life. I'm Fully Aware That This Is The Sacrifice.

I Feel Like The Downfall Of Any Person Is The Second An Artist Starts Celebrating Their Work Themselves, That Becomes Problematic. And You Know, I Don't Sit There, I Don't Bask In The Awards I've Won, You Know, Read My Bank Statements, I Refuse. To Me, That's How You Start Losing The Hunger. So For Me Personally, I Just Don't Celebrate It. I'm Happy, Right Now.