They see me rollin’, they hatin’

Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.

A moment will pass, but a movement will last.

Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this little hole that I'm in." You've got this core fan base, but it's limited.

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something.

What's life if you're not enjoying it?

These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

I just try to do me, and I feel like it works.

If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.

My beliefs are the center of my being.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.

Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.

Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience.

Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

Sometimes we have to prove to others we're strong even where we're not.

When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.