I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.

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

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

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.

Keep your heart pure. Overlook an insult.

Fear gives people their humanity. Fear of loss.

Ah how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

I've been successful in different areas, but nothing brings a smile to my face more than my oldest son, Zaire, and my second son, Zion, saying the kind word of 'Dad.'

An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.