I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.

Students do not have many role models who use language well. They are very much into rap and movies that don't necessarily use standard English.

When I think about the biggest studios in New York, they're owned by people that are not musicians or artists, and artists come in and spend their money there, and they'd rather do that, as opposed to getting the headache. So they pay someone else to get the headache.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.

My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.