I'm like Demerol... No disrespect to the Jacksons, but I kill mics.

There's always someone going to come around who can be better than the best. You want to be the first. No one can ever forget the first.

I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but I want to be massive. I want to be Kanye. I want to be Eminem.

I'm a prince for real, I don't look at myself as a rapper, as a gangster, none of that.

By the time I got kicked out of school, I had nothing else to do but rap.

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

Sadness is a bruise on the skin of memory.

Adversity is the hidden treasures of life.

When I'd woken the next morning, I'd done so in a dislocated world of dimmed daylight and diluted colors, a sodden world, feeling like I was a castaway on an alien planet.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

We knew that, in doing something that's based around the world of the movie and how popular that is, we really wanted to do the biggest show that we've ever done, in terms of the look of the show.

Whatever has you afraid, angry, intimidated or frustrated tonight - take it to our all-powerful and all-capable God. He has the answer.

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.