As far as my inspirations, I just like anyone who is making good music - period.

Young kids out here see what's on TV and feel like they can start rapping. They think rappers are rich and really have their own jets and Bentleys, but in lot of cases that stuff is rented.

I like so many different genres of music that I guess it would be hard for me to pick one person who inspires me when so many people inspire me to make good music.

It's a beautiful thing to build your own fan base and pay the bills knowing that you're staying true to your music at the end of the day. I look at life like this, the sky's the limit!

Half of the reason why people aren't able to succeed in life is because they hypnotize themselves into believing that they can't accomplish their goals, it's a mind game they play with themselves.

I would describe myself as a hard worker, very humble and focused on whatever it is that I put my mind to.

I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.

The only reason I started using samples was because people talked about me not sounding like Kanye or The Heatmakers.

I just look up to anyone who made music back then because you really had to be a musician. There were no samples or drum machines. Those people back in the day paved the way for people like me.

God is my spiritual guide. Half the music I come up with I really don't know where it comes from.

You can't have somebody guide you through everything - some things you have to learn on your own.

The sweet pleasure of prayer, the grace of the soul.

God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus’ steps.

I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

Hillary Clinton is using a private server for - where classified information go by. This is a - this is a serious administration?

History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

We are all important, but we are not indispensable.

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.