I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I been doing music my whole life.

Only bacteria thrive and live well in a poorly cared for body.

Friend who has fired the kingfishers and flamed the dragonflies – they catch your light however they move and beam it out of their eyes.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.