What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art.

If you can perfect the booth, the stage and just your persona, like maybe in interviews and when people talk to you, then you're a full well-rounded emcee in my opinion.

I don't hate any sort of music but I just think that the lyricism needs to be in the forefront.

You owe dough? You ain't give up that cheese? Hey... Sooner or later, you'll Pay, Pal (no eBay).

I'm really, really, really, really conservative with money. I got to give myself a lot of excuses to spend money, because I come from nothin'.

I wake up hip-hop, Go to sleep hip-hop, Dream 'bout hip-hop, 'Cause I AM HIP-HOP.

Back in the days the great emcees made singles, had great shows, won battles, had all the girls and dressed fly. That¹s what I'm about...the total package emcees.

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sangWhen life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?

Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.

...burying themselves in his arm was more about feeling his love in the confusion, in the difficulty, than it was about having moved past it.

If you think you can do this.YES!You can do it!!Believe in yourself!!

Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Trump has to do what Reagan did. Trump's gotta go on the air and tell us what his tax plan is and put it in our faces and put them on the spot. That's what I think he should do.

Anything is possible after midnight.