“I always wanted a family.”

Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I’m a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don’t notice.

Why accept failure when success is free?

I don’t really like talking. I like to execute. I’m not a talking person. I’m an action person.

It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

I’ve always been a loner.

I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

Out my window. I see everything I dream about and wished I had.

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate.

Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted. A vision without action is merely a dream. Action, it’s the grind, it’s the hustle, it’s the persistence.

Wise men change, fools stay the same.

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.

I think that’s become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family – a statement – and you can afford it, then that’s a noble project.

Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.

I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place.

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer’s Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.

I talked about my family, my family’s so important.

I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.