Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

You're much better off with a dogthan a dogma.

The desires you aspire to need strong chains of intent.

When there is abundance of fish, we need help to pull the nets.

You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. ... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now.

Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.

She got to go to heaven four days early.