Weird like Murdock, thinkin' like Hannibal, Man like Face but I'm wild like B.A.

They say blood is thicker than water. Only in certain cases, you need water to live. You learn that in the basics.

It's family first for me and then business so the family has got to know what's going on with the business.

I didn't cut no corners, I just gave it my heart and soul.

My heart seem[s] colder than March but on the flipside of things, it's still warmer than June.

I would never sell my soul, for cars and gold

I'm always going to survive and always going to be able to make more music because I have a dedicated fan base.

I mean family is more important than anything in life. Family is important than my crew, D-Block, my rap career anything... It's the most important aspect of a person's life.

Young black men had an opportunity to make money that they had never made before, so why not be flashy? I'm not mad at the flash. It just needed to be balanced.

An emcee is a Master of Ceremonies. If you're an emcee, and I am an emcee... I rhyme, you know what I mean? I do things for my fans that still appreciate me, let them know what's coming.

When you're indie and you have your hands on yourself and you're not working for someone, you're working with someone and you're dealing with them, it's a totally different feeling involved.

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

We must understand what the word believe implies. It means “commit” and “surrender.

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.

I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.