I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

You are so much more than you are in this moment; you never know how great you can be. Don't give up on you, I didn't give up on me.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

Love is boundary-less.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.

No level raised without reading, is like a body trying to live without breathing.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

It's better to swallow pride than blood.

Prejudice. It's a bad thing. Once your mind is prejudiced, you will not think beneath or beyond. Actually, you will stop thinking.

We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

I'm undisputed and there's no disputing that.

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig