I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

You are so much more than you are in this moment; you never know how great you can be. Don't give up on you, I didn't give up on me.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

Love is boundary-less.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed, ' my father said softly.

I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

Most of us have to think worst-case scenario.