I used to prefer rapping over singing, but now I'm a little 50/50 about it. I like doing both, a lot - equally.

You have to go through ups and downs. Mistakes turn into lessons.

Value everyone you know they might be gone tomorrow

I love the rowdiness, I love how crazy it is during the day. There's a business about it that's great. There's never a dull moment, so it really inspires the music I write.

You're always going to miss your daily eating spots, your daily hangouts with your friends, family. I miss my family like crazy, all the time.

Who doesn't like money? I love money. Why not. My subject matter will change when I get to that point.

When I was five, all I wanted to be was a superstar. Not even lying to you. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I wanted to be famous.

Even if I never get to see the light of heaven, it will still be worth my sacrifice as long as I save you.

Wounds may heal, but the scars remain.

When all you have is the darkness of hate, kindness is a beacon that burns bright.

In the absence of light, only darkness is left.

What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so.

If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner.

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

I don't know that I'm gonna get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there's a good chance I won't. And if I don't, do you honestly believe that Hillary would be tougher on Putin than me?

Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.