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

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.

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.

I don't have beef with nobody.

If you wanna live long, live your Passion.

You can actually overcome all the limitations of life and achieve your dreams, if you don't give up too early.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

There are no have-to's, just choices

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

You have to have your fashion stylist person not sell out and sell your s - t to another pop star because they can pay them twice as much, and do it for the belief and the love of art.

No matter what obeisance the state may demand, we who serve the King are free indeed.

Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

It's not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.