It's not about being happy 100 percent all the time, cause that's just life. I make sad songs, too, that really only make the happy songs better.
I know everywhere is cool and all, but, at least for me, I was lucky enough to be in southern California. I feel lucky to be from there... I feel like it taught me how to be polite.
We really have the power to illuminate all negative things in our life, but we have to find that light source inside of us and really tap in with it and reconnect with it.
It's important to reassure people that everything is going to be all right.
That was everything to me as a kid. When I'd see someone on MTV, it was like, 'Wow, they're the real deal.'
Randomly enough, all of my favorite rappers growing up were East Coast rappers. I don't know. I just related to them a little more at first - because if you're born in L.A., and you lived there your whole life, Snoop Dogg literally sounds like cars driving by. You feel me? You hear Snoop Dogg so much.
