I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

Happiness comes from your mindset.

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.

Pledge allegiance to the struggle.

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.