No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

You are called to do a certain work – do it

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.

I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.