Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select—doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
The struggles I've been through, the pain I've endured, it all comes out in my music.
Innovation comes from saying no to a thousand things to focus on the few that really matter.
I'm a fighter, and I'm very determined and independent.