It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you.

Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.

A moment will pass, but a movement will last.

Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this little hole that I'm in." You've got this core fan base, but it's limited.

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something.

What's life if you're not enjoying it?

These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady

They see me rollin’, they hatin’

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

I just try to do me, and I feel like it works.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.

It's your life; live it well.

If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.