I've got more creative control when I do music.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

Behind every fortune, there's a crime.

I'm taking one for the team, Like Martin Luther King, taking one for a dream

I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

Like sweet morning dew I took one look at you And it was plain to see You were my destiny

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

Now what Clan you know with lines this ill? Bust shots at Big Ben, like we got time to kill.

There are few things that's forever, my lady. We can make war or make babies.

I call my brother 'Sun' cause he shine like one.

Myself, I'm a pothead. It's no secret. Everyone knows that. I go on the road and forget everything else

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

The stars were so simple when she was a kid, a smattering of glowing dust circling the Earth. She did not then know that each was a sun, most considerably more massive than the daylight one she knew.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.

I have, ever since the first day of my campaign, called for criminal justice reform.

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.