I like so many different genres of music that I guess it would be hard for me to pick one person who inspires me when so many people inspire me to make good music.

Young kids out here see what's on TV and feel like they can start rapping. They think rappers are rich and really have their own jets and Bentleys, but in lot of cases that stuff is rented.

It's a beautiful thing to build your own fan base and pay the bills knowing that you're staying true to your music at the end of the day. I look at life like this, the sky's the limit!

Half of the reason why people aren't able to succeed in life is because they hypnotize themselves into believing that they can't accomplish their goals, it's a mind game they play with themselves.

I would describe myself as a hard worker, very humble and focused on whatever it is that I put my mind to.

I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.

The only reason I started using samples was because people talked about me not sounding like Kanye or The Heatmakers.

I just look up to anyone who made music back then because you really had to be a musician. There were no samples or drum machines. Those people back in the day paved the way for people like me.

God is my spiritual guide. Half the music I come up with I really don't know where it comes from.

You can't have somebody guide you through everything - some things you have to learn on your own.

I don't have to be as big as Dre, Kanye or Pharrell. Nobody even has to know my face. As long as I'm getting placements and I'm making good music and able to support myself - I'm good.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay.

Whatever be the calling name the emotion and love hidden in it is same

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.

Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.

I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

I learned to value the small transactions as well as the large.

I've always done a lot of stunts in the past, and I sound like I'm tooting my own horn here, but I've always impressed the people I've worked with and they've let me do more and more.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.