I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.
I'm a fan of X-men.
When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.
Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.
Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.
Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
I don't like politics.
We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.
Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.
If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.
My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.
When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.
I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'
We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.
I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.
You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.
How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.
It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.
