I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.

It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

Everybody’s got a mean side. Just don’t feed it till it grows.

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

If I had a comfort blanket, I wouldn't have been as passionate and driven.

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.