Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.

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.

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.

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.

Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.

Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.

You have to leave room for the other person's ego.

Security lies in our ability to produce.

I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.

I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.