Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future.

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.

I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you're like, wouldn't it be nice to have someone here with me.

I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.