There's people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we've got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record. Isn't it ridiculous?

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home that dominates him.

The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.