I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.