If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

I'm more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.

I feel that luck is a product of hard work.

We're not the cause, we're the effect.

[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?

If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you're gonna pick up a rag and start bangin', and you can look yourself in the mirror and you still feel like you're a man? That's cool, do your thing.

He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!

his legacy, if there is one, is that I try to do my best to see people whole, for who they are and what they've been through. especially those who matters to me

Pride is never sinful when it is Justice.

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I dont have to face him on Sunday.

I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.

Don't challenge the world before becoming a big fire; otherwise they will extinguish you even with little spits!

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.