Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

Whatever is the scariest is almost always what I end up choosing.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.

Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73