If your not honest with yourself, how the hell are you gonna be honest with me.

Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.

Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.

Cuz if I don't say I'm the best, tell me who the hell will.

I instruct you to be the obeyer, A rhythm recipe that you'll savor, Doesn't matter if you're minor or major, Yes, the Tribe of the game, rhythm player, As you inhale like a breath of fresh air

When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?

Used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue. It's not like honey dip would wanna get with me, But just in case I own more condoms than TLC.

Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!

I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.

f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work

I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.

Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you.

I wish to die painting.

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating