I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I been doing music my whole life.

In this world there are two types of people: the ones who hurt, and the ones who are hurt. But if we all claim to be the victims, then aren't we all the criminals too?

The worlds high on doing and distracting and as result we need to keep doing and it doesn’t really matter what we are doing, as long as it is distracting.

You more than anyone else deserve to be loved and happy. Do not remain in any relationship that robs you of those two things.

But in the end I'd marry her to the one she herself loved. To a father, the man his daughter falls in love with herself always seems the worst. That's how it is.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.