You have to evolve and change but you're always gonna get that street edge out of my music regardless. That's who I am. That's in me and that ain't gon' never go away.

Maybe you's a stank ho, maybe that's a bit mean Maybe you grew up and I'm still living like I'm sixteen.

Back when I was younger, Very ambitious, but often blinded by my hunger. Some say I dream too big, And my dream gon' take me under.

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.

Most of my show is just improvisation. It goes with the energy of the crowd.

Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level.

I don't have no... I love Lil Wayne. I grew up on the Hot Boys.

I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you do. You gotta be open to other ideas.

I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.

I don't like people being something that they ain't, and we got a lot of that in rap right now.

I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide for my family and my art, and live comfortably and live well, then I'm good. And with my talent level and my skill level, I'll get there.

Well, I think the first thing to do when trying to let go of the past is to accept it. Denial only delays the problem for later. Deal with it now.

I have been very happy very rich very beautiful much adulated very famous and very unhappy.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

If you're with a close friend, your anger may raise his blood pressure as well as your own, whereas loving feelings may lower blood pressure in both of you.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just … bleak?