There's a lot of people out there that's starting to sound like me so I guess I'm doing something right.

You just gotta be yourself. Like be yourself and if it works out for you, grind hard. Don't get lost in it. And have fun.

You get comparisons with anything in life. I think that if you [are] taking the time out to compare me to somebody, then I must be doing something right.

I want my foundation built, and I want to be strong enough to deal with everything coming my way.

I want to give people the message and let them feel my emotion behind it.

I'm putting my emotion out on stage so people can actually feel me. If you feel somebody's art and you see them perform it and they aren't feeling it, that's one of the first things in the game.

I never pay attention, to no numbers, no views, comments ... I just try to keep on going, keep on living my life so I can continue to put out music that's real.

I like it when girls are screaming for me. It makes me feel really player-like. I enjoy being out there, delivering my songs, and putting a face to the music.

I don't know what it means to be a star because I don't really look at myself like a star. I look at myself as a regular person, just like everybody else. I just love what I do.

A fan can only go as far as you let them. I've seen crazy things like girls having me autograph their body and then they go get it tattooed. I guess that's too far, but it's cool with me.

I'm a private person so wasn't the type of person who could talk to people and be like this is going on at home, I want this shirt, this girl don't like me, etc. I just rap about it!

to live at all is to be bruised

Every painting tells a story.

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.

Dads are the leaders in their homes, and our kids need leaders.

Nothing has that fire we feel when we're onstage.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

Hitler was a vegetarian.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.