Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That's first and foremost.

I'm a real dude from a real place and I never express myself through social sites. I don't feed into it, man. That's not real life.

We focus on money, getting money and winning. We let the rest of them chase the women. We focus on winning cuz getting women is slight work. That's all the time with us.

I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich but don't nobody wanna work for it.

I was blessed with the talent. God gave me the gift to put words together and make popular songs.

Like LeBron James, we already know how good the man is. We know he can play. He's rich. But he still want a ring. N!ggas know my music hot. That's proven. Now its time to get the ring.

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

I really wanna work with Kanye West. He's one of the few people I haven't got to work with yet that I really wanted to.

With each project, whether it's an album or a mixtape, I try to learn more in the process.

The first CD said exactly what it was. I was just in the streets hustling. I come from a family of hustlers.

Love didn't always solve the problem; sometimes it became the problem.

The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness.

The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.

The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be.

The best thing I’ve learned, and still believe, is that I don’t have to be perfect to start, I have to start... so I can begin learning and growing.

It takes both sides to build a bridge.

She’d have to treat the interview more like risotto than instant rice, adding ingredients gradually while stirring gently.

We were in an awkward position against Yugoslavia in that in order to win we needed to score more goals than they did.

Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.