People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

I go to clubs and if I notice the DJs are playing the records faster, then I'll push the beats a little on the next record I make. A lot of people don't know how to watch out for things like that.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.

All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.

In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.

Wise people are motivated by the quotes and by the books.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

I guess a lot of things happen still.

I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.

Just to clear the record ive never turn down a mma fight against anyone and never will.

Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there.

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.