I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly find. I wanted to know the business part of being in the music business.

Got a house on the hill, cost a couple of mill, Juicy J got bank like Uncle Phil.

I never stopped grinding. I never stopped hustling. I never stopped working. I just kept moving. It has nothing to do with the money or anything like that. It's just that I love music.

You gotta live life. You gotta enjoy life. I mean, I don't live on the edge.

I don't advise kids to do what I do. I'm just doing me. I just smoke a little weed and do a little drink.

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar.

It's hard for a person to try to keep his stuff together being nominated for something and then performing onstage.

I keep my ear to the streets - that's how I know music. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep music. That's it. Nothing else.

I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.

You never know what's gonna be a hit.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

Sometimes relationships aren’t meant to be forever. We stumble upon one another to learn, to love, to appreciate and become who we’re supposed to be.

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.

A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.

I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

Some crave grief like strong drink.

And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.