I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.

I think it's important to evolve and grow and take risks creatively, instead of repeating yourself and doing the same thing over and over.

I've put myself in this position where I haven't set myself up with a Plan B. I don't have a safety net; it's all in.

If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress.

The boys in the hood are always hard.

Police on my drawers I had to pause 40 ounce in my lap And it's freezing my balls

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I'm kin to the devil.

Jumped In The Fo' Hit The Juice On Ma Ride I Got Front Back, And Side To Side

You cannot teach a person anything who does not want to learn.

Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures - of these 3 000 are in existence.

Beauty is health. Health is beauty.

I grew up in New York, I love New York.

You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.