It hurts when people put you down.

I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.

I don't have beef with nobody.

The only place where to experience the invisible future is in the mind. The relationships we have with our minds make all the difference.

Good does not exist.It is merely an absent of evil.

What does she want to be? A green girl doesn't like to consider this question. She is waiting around to be discovered just for being herself.

Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

Music doth extenuate fears furies appeaseth cruelty abateth heaviness and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness of soul.

Follow that porcupine!

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.

You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into the narrative is to turn it into action.