If I can give you one strong piece of ADVICE, when you go AWAY for that ROMANTIC weekend, whatever you do, do not ACCEPT or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.
When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our NERVES, we just yearn to go AWAY from here to somewhere else. To go FISHING is a sound, a valid, and an accepted REASON for an escape. It requires no EXPLANATION.
The DAY Obama got into office, rap was less IMPORTANT because Obama gave KIDS an alternative. But will rap ever go AWAY? No. There will always be a NEED for poets.
You need to be different and stand out. You need to have a message. For me, it didn't COME easily. The best advice I was EVERGIVEN, THOUGH, is go away and WRITE 100 songs. You need to find the music that's you.
I haven't been as wild with my MONEY as somebody LIKE me MIGHT have been. I've been very safe, very CONSERVATIVE with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I KNOW things can go away. I've already had that experience.
I once told a journalist that GIRLS call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no MATTER how MANYTIMES I've said that it was a JOKE, it still doesn't go away.
I try to cope by doing what I do, what I find PURPOSE and joy in. For me, that has been writing and PLAYING ball. It doesn't make the pain GOAWAY, but what else can I do?