I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.

Dream a little dream, Or you can live a little dream I'd rather live it 'Cause dreamers always chase But never get it

I'm just tryin to be somebody I can talk to in the morning with a smile.

Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow.

The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.

I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine

The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

I've learned I don't like being around people too much. It's hard to stand around and make conversation with people I've learned. But I do want to be the guy that can do it easily.

Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.

Those who care about me will forget me but, those who love me will never let go of me.

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

Life's a game-and I happen to know how to play.

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just heading up the mountain."

When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.

Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past.