I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

It hurts when people put you down.

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.

I don't have beef with nobody.

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

I don't know where I'll be crashing. I think that was my line.

The magic of the music seems to light the way.

If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?

Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they write you songs, forget it, okay?

Very little happens in my books.

Once you play something, then you get 20 more of those. So I've tried to avoid getting stuck. I try to take roles that are the opposite of the last thing I did as much as I can.

October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.