I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.

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.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Ignite the light within you, it will make your world brighter.

Discouragement is a signal of the flesh and the tongue

A man with no imagination can never inspire others.

I learned later that I had smartly discovered the way of defeating anything: believing that you're stronger than you are.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

Hey, see if they've got any pie. Bring me some pie. I love me some pie.

Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.

Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.