I don't want people to confuse me as an MC that talk about nothing.

The Scarecrow needed a brain, the Tin Man needed a heart, and the other dude needed courage. I need love. You feel me?

'The Wizard of Poetry' - I had that title since I did 'The Pretty Toney' album. That's when the name first came to me.

I'm a wizard at poetry.

If you ask me, I think it should be an eye for an eye. On everything.

I like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle. I would love to do songs with them.

Love always overcomes hate.

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.

Terrorism is not related to Islam.

The music industry needs a TV outlet for hip-hop fans and artists.

You go to Africa, and you see how things are over there. Spiritually, it opens you up.

As long as you respect me, I'm a respect you.

I wanna do a God album, a positive album so the kids and everybody will understand what's going on.

In all seriousness, I just think, 'Keep God first.'

I went to the mosque one day, and it came to me, like, 'This is where I belong.'

Sometimes you gotta just chill. You gotta chill your thinking process.

I used to believe that George Michael was a total actor. It was self-defeating, because it made me also feel fraudulent.

No one wants to look wholesome at 21!

Apart from some of the videos and haircuts, I don't think I've made any wrong moves, ha ha!

I have no belief in The Bible or religion, but I think Armageddon was a lucky guess. I honestly think it's going to happen.

I'm 10-12 years into life as an out gay man, and I'm a different person. I think there are things about my journey that might be useful to other people, and coming up with a hit record on its own doesn't seem to be enough anymore.

Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.

I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up, and suddenly, all I wanted to know about was music. It just seemed a very, very strange thing.

There are things about my mum that I only realised later, things that make me admire her.