I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me.

Music should be your escape.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.

I believe that tracks speak to me. Some tracks make me write certain music or make me feel sad or inspire me to write a sad love song. Each track has its feeling to me.

We're told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool.

Most of the people could be good at something specific, but they probably never discover what it is.

From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.

I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.

There is no short cut to acheivement.

When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.

Even if it makes others comfortable, I will LOVE who I am

...you cannot punish a wet child for the rain.

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.