Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

Cry as much as you want to, but make sure when you're finished, you never cry for the same reason again

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.

The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.

I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

Heat makes things expand

A victory with so many victims is nothing but the biggest defeat!

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

I was born with music inside me

If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.