I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.

I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa Don't I look like a HalleBerry posta?

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor

Never say no to coffee

Tell me who admires and loves you and I will tell you who you are.

If you want to feel good, be rational.

I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.

I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my 20s and 30s. No Botox for me.

You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.