“You’d have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!”

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

The moment I used my adversity to my advantage, my career exploded.

Had a dream, I was King, I woke up, still King.

Stop having a boring life.

I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Don’t let them tell you ain’t beautiful.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

If I had one wish I would ask for a big enough for the whole world to kiss.

If I’m not passionate about it, I can’t write it. I can’t fake it.

I bully myself cause I make me do what I put my mind to.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Opportunity comes once in a lifetime.

If you get offended by my music, don’t listen to it.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

Can I doubt the shape of the earth? Can I judge a minute for lasting sixty seconds, a day for being grey or cold and leaves for falling from trees? Can I speak too loud when I am angry or stay quiet when I disagree? Can I forget about the norms and make some of my own?

As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to ‘do what the people want,’ instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically.

Do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on.

The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

There’s a time and purpose for being lost. If you don’t judge the being lost you get through it sooner.