Your mind must control, but you must have heart. . . . Give your feeling free.
I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.
I'm a performer. That's what I do. That and making money - it's the passion and the care factor for the people that support your passion, the people that support you, it's the kind of people that go crazy and love your stuff.
One thing I'm big on is believing in giving an album time. I'll say you'll have to give an album three years before you can call it a classic. If you can't listen to it three years later then it's not really a classic.
I'm not anti single. I'm not one of them niggas that say "Aww record sales ain't everything. " No. I wanna sell good. I would love a platinum record on radio and charts.
Lean gives you such stomach pain. I'll never forget the time I was at South by Southwest and had to do all these shows, and I sitting on the couch curled up, hours of pain. . . That wasn't the moment I quit, that was the moment when I said I need more.
I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldnt get batteries. I wasnt trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.
Drop Out--detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On--find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In--be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision.
There is nothing people can throw at me to say: Do this, do that.
I want enough time to be in love with everything. . .
When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.