My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!

He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

Whoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved.