I was a pretty bad person early in my life.

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

I'm looking at the ruins of my own existence and knowing, with a sickening certainty, that my old home and my old life have been truly destroyed.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.

What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.