Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Wherefore the present age is given up as a reproach to the heathen, and for what cause the people whom thou hast loved is given over unto ungodly nations?!

One day, my lady." said Mr. Keeper, stepping aside and allowing her to join them, "I should hope I would be fortunate enough to see such a graceful, unearthly curtsy from you again.

Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is.

Everything not forbidden by the laws of nature, he assured her - quoting a colleague down the hall - is mandatory.

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

Be yourself, but always your better self.

Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in the universe!

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

The Lord is a shoving leopard.