You can't just sing the song and live another life.

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

I've got a Ferrari. VROOM! I do 104 from the garage to the front door.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

Whether the gods are inside or outside makes very little difference to whether there are gods.

Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]