For Me, I Walk A Line Of

Some People Are The Greatest People On Earth With Good Hearts And Will Get In The Studio And Make The Most Negative Music In The World For The Sake Of Success. That's What The Music Business Does To You. That's What Capitalism Does To You.

My Whole Team, It Wasn't About Putting The Album Out, It Was About Getting Off The Record Company And Going Independent Or Going To Another Label. To The Point We Were Like, 'listen, Just Take 'lasers.' You Can Have Whatever Percentage Off The Next Ten Records I Do For The Rest Of My Life. I Just Do Not Want To Be Here Anymore.'

In Chicago, You Have An Absence Of Strong Family Units, And That Absence Gets Filled By Gangs. You Have A Failure In The School System, After-school Programs And Other Social Programs To Help Keep Kids Off The Streets. Amnesty International Speaks To That In Some Way, By Keeping These Issues In The Forefront.

The World Brought Me To My Knees, What Have You Brung You?

To Me, You Can't Win. You Can't Win. There's A War In Iraq; There's No Way That They're Ending That. The War In Afghanistan Is Still Going On. There's No Way That's Going To End Anytime Soon. You Can Complain About It, You Can Throw Rocks At It, But You Really Have To Come To The Conclusion That This Is A Really Twisted Place Sometimes And Some Stuff You're Not Going To Win.