Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.

I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.

I live to die; better that than to live a lie.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.

The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Life is a daring sacred existence.

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'

Science is not always what scientists do.

Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.