You are so much more than you are in this moment; you never know how great you can be. Don't give up on you, I didn't give up on me.

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

Love is boundary-less.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.[so we can see the bright side of everything]

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

I respect them [Amar Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony or Dwyane Wade], but would I dress like them? No.

Oh, he knows how to play, little bitty baby Potter.

Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC