The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.

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.

I can hear the songs of your eyes, I can feel the warmth of your glowing cheek, and I can get lost in the smile of your soul.

I believe beauty is action. If my action can bring smiles in the innocent faces of people then my act is beautiful.

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

Spirit is never without matter, matter is never without spirit.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.