“I have black friends, but I don’t just hang out with black kids. I might pull up with Indian kids, white kids, black kids, whatever.”

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

I’m big on diversity. My music is very diverse; I don’t want it to ever be typecasted.

My music isn’t rappity-rap-rap-rap.

I really can’t speak on others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has their problems with the industry because we all want to have our creative way.

I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.

If she bad, she gets a pass into the tour.

I’m not a gangsta.

Yes, money is important. But it’s all about the creative process.

I remember my mom bought me one of their shirts for Easter so that I could wear Helmut Lang for Easter. That was my first piece.

My whole story is straight mythical. It’s tangible, but it’s also what life could be.

Every time I go into the studio, it’s some next level, man.

I don’t look at myself as a designer; I’m focused on music.

I was a smart kid. I went to a private school in middle school and got kicked out.

I’m a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.

I’m attached to the beat. The best speaks words. I love Music.

I feel like Houston is one of the leading things in music culture. Everyone loves the Houston culture. It needs to have its own monument, its own moment for artists like me, artists like Beyonce who set it off.

We stand in solidarity against racism and for racial justice.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.

Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.