When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.

I live to die; better that than to live a lie.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.

The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

I am the only real truth I know.

I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)

I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

Baseball is not a grind for me.