Don't get in my personal life.

I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

It hurts when people put you down.

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.

A good river is nature's life work in song.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you.

The minute that you make the discussion in the room more well-rounded, multicultural, and of course having differences in gender, you're going to have a different approach.

The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.

Wind chimes are also earthquake chimes.

To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

I do like comic book movies, but only the ones that I read as a kid.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.