I usually record all through the night, but I'm known for waking up early in the morning. Even if I had recorded till 3 or 4 in the morning I might wake up at 9 or 10. I never sleep till 1 o clock.

If a man does not have the sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can be lost in the sauce.

Ain't got no comparison and I ain't being arrogant.

I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive.

I ball all through the winter and I stunt all through the summer.

Girls are like buses, miss one, next fifteen, one comin.

I don't give a damn how you feel about me, I sip lean pure codeine and I don't give a damn what you say about me.

How you dress on the outside, it represents your soul.

I will keep on hurdling and keep on hustling.

It feels like all my hard work is getting recognized. It makes me work even harder.

I'm so high, it's so lonely up here

Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you.

A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier, he's gonna check us all on out of here. Up to that mansion on a hill, where you can get your prescription filled.

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.

When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.