Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.