"I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality."

"Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change."

"People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop."

"I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family."

"For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable."

"I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him."

"There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong."

"We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex."