America has always been fascinated with the bad guy that's probably why I'm still here. I'm not just living off my bad guy image cuz at the end of the day nobody wants to be bad forever.

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

Does freedom have a meaning if you're trapped in your ways?

A lot of people think that it was about Biggie on the East Coast and 2Pac on the West Coast. It wasn't like that. Big ran New York. 2Pac ran America.

You can love me or you can hate me but you can't define me.

Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma. Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama.

There's people that like you and there's people that don't like you. I love it because I love the negative criticism because I always feel I have something to prove.

Everybody has to play a side because if you play both sides you a snake if you not a peacemaker.

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.

You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

Half the people on the internet are bored and they have no life.

The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can.

I had try to tell the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

Actually, I defend the right to free abortion.

See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in mind.