Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.

Everybody's somebody's everything

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

Sometimes the truth don't rhyme, sometime the lies get millions of views, funerals for little girls is that appealing to you?

Whats better than followers, is actually falling in love

Sometimes the truth don't rhyme

Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.

Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.

Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.

When you are networking you are doing more than just marketing your business

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

Eddie Murphy is to comedians what Nicki Minaj is to Spanx.

If you're a racist, right now, in 2011... You just look like a retard, man.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre

We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.