As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Half the hoes hate, half them love me. The ones that hate me only hate me cuz they ain't [expletive] me.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

Surround yourself with people who are positive and who guard against negative talk.

I miss more loving someone so deeply that I can't imagine a forever without her kisses.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

The whole existence is a temple...the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.

Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.