For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

The best revenge in the world is success.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you

I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

Two birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered.

Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader

If you fall from a plane onto a river, and survived, it is luck, but if you fall from a plane onto asphalt ground, and survived, then that is a miracle.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

Fashion is more art than art is

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.