Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

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.

...winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird...

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.

We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

I would love do a guest spot on Castle because Nathan Fillion is so dreamy, and he and I are friends. And I think we could have a lot of fun.

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.