I'm always going to survive and always going to be able to make more music because I have a dedicated fan base.

They say blood is thicker than water. Only in certain cases, you need water to live. You learn that in the basics.

Weird like Murdock, thinkin' like Hannibal, Man like Face but I'm wild like B.A.

It's family first for me and then business so the family has got to know what's going on with the business.

I didn't cut no corners, I just gave it my heart and soul.

My heart seem[s] colder than March but on the flipside of things, it's still warmer than June.

I would never sell my soul, for cars and gold

I mean family is more important than anything in life. Family is important than my crew, D-Block, my rap career anything... It's the most important aspect of a person's life.

Young black men had an opportunity to make money that they had never made before, so why not be flashy? I'm not mad at the flash. It just needed to be balanced.

An emcee is a Master of Ceremonies. If you're an emcee, and I am an emcee... I rhyme, you know what I mean? I do things for my fans that still appreciate me, let them know what's coming.

When you're indie and you have your hands on yourself and you're not working for someone, you're working with someone and you're dealing with them, it's a totally different feeling involved.

Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons)

I don't have a story, " I said. "I'm still waiting for one.

I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox.

God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted.

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

... law is a substitute for love.

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

I would strenuously urge a single term of six years.