I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

I do like to dress up. I am shapely, everything about me is real and I can rap.

I'm changing my flow up so much on every song that you're not going to be able to compare me to nobody but me.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.

It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people.

If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

Rich with the spoils of time.