There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
You're gonna know my name by the end of the night
I don't believe in competition, ain't nobody else like me around
I was just a very emotional player. I wore my emotions on my sleeve. I pretty much told you how I felt. I didn't mince words, so to speak. If I felt bad, I let you know that I felt bad. If I felt you were playing sorry, I told you. If I was playing sorry, I told myself that. I came from an era when losing really hurt. I didn't see anything good about it.
All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.
So there's no typical day, but I transition through the course of my business day by doing everything from construction meetings on the development project under construction to design meetings for an upcoming apparel delivery to acquisition meetings about projects we're looking to acquire. It's very diverse in terms of content, substance, and what I address on a typical day.
Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.
I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.