I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I been doing music my whole life.

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

Belief creates behaviors.

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

Today life opened inside me like an egg.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

Nothing else exists when art does.

Originally I considered myself a singer.

There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.