There are other jobs I do besides rap. I was considering going back to school so there have been a few things on my plate that I thought about doing during my time off.

Be true to yourself and as long as you can look back and be happy with what you've done stay that way.

I'm just the type of person that realizes that someone is always going to have something to say so I could care less about it.

Things happen and you live and you learn.

I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody.

Rap is purging itself from the things it didn't need and it's allowing the younger dudes to come up. With that being said you're always going to need people from that golden era.

You're always going to need those folks that introduce certain things to the next generation and I fit in that sense.

Life ain't complicated unless you complicate it.

Be mindful of everything going on around you and always be on point but don't be so on point that you lose that ability to be what it was that got you out there.

I could look in everyone's faces and see them reflecting on how much time has passed and all the things we went through.

When I did The Natural that album was done from the perspective of a kid from Queens that was 19-20 years old who doesn't know that much about the industry.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read

Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.

In a good house all is quickly ready.

There is a great beauty in little things.

I married somebody who is very secure. He's been in my corner from the time we met, and we grew in this together.

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live over a saloon.