I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.

The best revenge in the world is success.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you

I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.--After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

Let us see each other not through the eyes but through the heart and feel the joy of love.

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment.

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

[Abortion] is an evil in and of itself, but it is not a religious evil in the beginning, no, it's a human evil. Then obviously, as with every human evil, each killing is condemned.

Success will come when you choose to feed your dreams and starve your doubts.