Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop.

In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats.

All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.

No question I would speed for cracks and weed The combination made my eyes bleed.

It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces.

Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all.

I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

It's true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang, could be dangerous.

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

Just 'cause something isn't true is no reason to not believe in it...

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

One of her favorite lines was, "The difference between genius and stupidity s that genius has limits.

We were worried that our main speaker wouldn't be able to make it tonight. But fortunately due to a hole in the prosecution's case . . .

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school.