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I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.

You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.

I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls.

I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.