“Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.”
“Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.”