I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'm trying to bring the street to pop. Not watering it down, no nothing.

I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

It hurts when people put you down.

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.

Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought

Don´t judge people, who preach the Gospel differently than you do.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

You never know what show is going to change your life.

This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.

Information is power. If you have information about the whole planet you have power over the whole planet. By knowing what people do in Germany they, of course, have power over them.

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.

You have to surrender to the energy above and below.