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" Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic. "

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" At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure. "

" That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool. "

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" Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music. "

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" My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies. "

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" I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing. "