I got my bearings, I began to focus. My mother was very supportive. When I came back to New York I landed a job at Hot 97.

I am going to do as much as I can do, because I hate to do anything and not give my all.

I was hanging out with some of what my mother would consider the wrong kind of kids. With no direction, no motivation. I would hang out in the lunchroom all day, or the handball courts

After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.

Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.

Do you. Just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be every day, and don't compare yourself to anyone else or worry about what they're doing.

I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me.

Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person.

The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

Douglas: You really got to stop doing that. Isabel: Doing what? Douglas: Getting prettier everyday.

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.