If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.

Work hard and never make excuses.

I go to church strapped with a 45 glock.

How does hating get started? It's started by the jealous people, and they get mad over the things you have.

Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

With every falling flake, a unique spark of interest falls from heaven.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

I'm not the same person that I used to be.

I want to get rich and die old.

I feel like it's okay for us to grow up because a lot of us want to get rich and die young.

I probably spent more money trying to do things that I didn't need to do.

Though all the guns be silenced, each soldier in his home, There is no peace till Love comes, till the meek may safely roam.

Prayer is not itself powerful

All your troubles, struggles, pains and suffering is worth one good thing.

God's going to work everything out and use you in ways you can't even imagine.

Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.

So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.

I appreciate some people enjoy reality TV and enjoy being a part of it - and I do watch it - but it isn't for me.

Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

I thought you were just mean," Reagan said. "I liked that about you.

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.