“Rapping was kind of hard. It's so many words. When you sing you can ki...” — Brent Faiyaz Quote

“Rapping was kind of hard. It's so many words. When you sing you can kind of stretch the words out. I didn't have to write as much as everybody else.”

“I don't wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.”

“Before anything, I wanted to be a rapper. I used to make beats and I would start singing to layer my beats and that's kind of how I realized I could sing.”

“If you can look in the mirror and say I love myself, that's going to affect your interactions with people who look like you.”

“I think it was 'The Diary of Alicia Keys'. That was the first time album I ever bought with my own money. I had a little Discman.”

“There's the hype stuff that people love for five minutes and then there's the stuff that changes cultures and shifts how you look at music. And then there's that rare point where that hype stuff changes the game.”

“I'll be honest, when I first started pro wrestling, everybody else did clotheslines better than me. They did everything about pro wrestling better than me. But when it comes to fighting, getting nitty and gritty, I'm the man.”

“We believed it was a Good vs Evil situation: that the WBC was right and everybody else was wrong, so there was no questioning. It was a very public war we were waging against the 'sinners.'”

“I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.”

“I really do believe when you're in a ton of pain, you tend to take it out on other people. If you deal with your stuff, you don't take it out on everybody else.”

“I grew up in a town - it was so small that I was like, 'There's absolutely no way that I'm going to stay here and live the kind of life that everybody else does.'”

“If we say the purpose of life is our children, that's neither a purpose nor a meaning. But I'm sure I will be as besotted as everybody else when I have them.”