I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.

Mix the the gas with the lean, call that gasoline

Hopped up out the bed / Turn my swag on

Ladies love a man with shirt off, so my shirt stays off

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's cool, but I don't like the dumb questions.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

Soulja Boy is on his dance, down south, young, 18-year-old, comedic swag. It's really just each person's personality; if every rapper had the same swag, it would be kind of boring.

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.

My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'

… I can only wish to remember the good timesand forget the things I refuse to remember. They are nothing but heartache.”-Sophia to Zarah, The Forest of Evergreen: Found in the Wilderness

Don’t be insecure about aiming to be a small business. Anyone who runs a business that’s sustainable and profitable, whether it’s big or small, should be

I want to light the lights of patriotism.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.