I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

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.

Tough times are opportunities to prove to yourself that your mind is tougher than all challenges.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you." Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

The end of the world is approaching, maybe by the year 2010.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

What you eat affects you physically as well as other beings you share this planet with.