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 best revenge in the world is success.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you

I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

Mind is every thing.

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.

I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.

If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity!

And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

Beauty's easy. Modeling is not just about being pretty.