Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats.

All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.

No question I would speed for cracks and weed The combination made my eyes bleed.

It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces.

Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop.

The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all.

I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1)

We usually need to have pain, trial or challenge to be motivated to learn or change. Learning in the midst of ease and prosperity comes from the pure inner soul’s inspired desire for improvement.

someone like Grace. Someone exactly like Grace, with her Ted Bundy rantsand her calming presence and—hello, irony.

And how do you really feel?Like I'll never recover. Like I'll never draw another breath without half of it being a wish for him.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

X Games, it's an event but it's still ... it's a show. I try to put on the best show possible, ... I'm thrilled. This is awesome.