I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'

Got a house on the hill, cost a couple of mill, Juicy J got bank like Uncle Phil.

I never stopped grinding. I never stopped hustling. I never stopped working. I just kept moving. It has nothing to do with the money or anything like that. It's just that I love music.

You gotta live life. You gotta enjoy life. I mean, I don't live on the edge.

I don't advise kids to do what I do. I'm just doing me. I just smoke a little weed and do a little drink.

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar.

It's hard for a person to try to keep his stuff together being nominated for something and then performing onstage.

I keep my ear to the streets - that's how I know music. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep music. That's it. Nothing else.

I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.

You never know what's gonna be a hit.

Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.

Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We.

We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause.

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.