My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.

Mix the the gas with the lean, call that gasoline

Hopped up out the bed / Turn my swag on

Ladies love a man with shirt off, so my shirt stays off

I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's cool, but I don't like the dumb questions.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

Soulja Boy is on his dance, down south, young, 18-year-old, comedic swag. It's really just each person's personality; if every rapper had the same swag, it would be kind of boring.

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.

In love, self-love is always at risk.

He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.