My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

Music should be your escape.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.

I believe that tracks speak to me. Some tracks make me write certain music or make me feel sad or inspire me to write a sad love song. Each track has its feeling to me.

I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me.

We're told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool.

When you fall in love, waves of joy fill your dreams and become your reality while your realities become your dreams.

You can't improve anything if you don't first know what needs to be improved.

Technology brings mankind closer to divinity or extinction.

I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.

You cannot change the outer event, so you must change the inner experience.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

Oh Earth, you gave me all I have, I love you, I love you, - oh what have IThat I can give you in return - Except my body after I die?

He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.