I went to acting school for like a year and ended up doing voiceovers and stuff. I could have done a lot more with it but at the time I really wasn't taking it seriously.

Be true to yourself and as long as you can look back and be happy with what you've done stay that way.

I'm just the type of person that realizes that someone is always going to have something to say so I could care less about it.

Things happen and you live and you learn.

There are other jobs I do besides rap. I was considering going back to school so there have been a few things on my plate that I thought about doing during my time off.

I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody.

Rap is purging itself from the things it didn't need and it's allowing the younger dudes to come up. With that being said you're always going to need people from that golden era.

You're always going to need those folks that introduce certain things to the next generation and I fit in that sense.

Life ain't complicated unless you complicate it.

Be mindful of everything going on around you and always be on point but don't be so on point that you lose that ability to be what it was that got you out there.

I could look in everyone's faces and see them reflecting on how much time has passed and all the things we went through.

Holiness was always something richly dim.

Life isn't easy but if you don't try to improve it then it'll just get worse and worse till your no longer living.

How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

Osama bin Laden was living in that compound with three wives. It's like he was Newt Gingrich.

Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.

He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.