You owe dough? You ain't give up that cheese? Hey... Sooner or later, you'll Pay, Pal (no eBay).

If you can perfect the booth, the stage and just your persona, like maybe in interviews and when people talk to you, then you're a full well-rounded emcee in my opinion.

I don't hate any sort of music but I just think that the lyricism needs to be in the forefront.

I'm really, really, really, really conservative with money. I got to give myself a lot of excuses to spend money, because I come from nothin'.

I wake up hip-hop, Go to sleep hip-hop, Dream 'bout hip-hop, 'Cause I AM HIP-HOP.

Back in the days the great emcees made singles, had great shows, won battles, had all the girls and dressed fly. That¹s what I'm about...the total package emcees.

What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art.

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

How is it that time can be elastic? Sometimes years seem to go by while you're looking the other way, and sometimes-when you most long for it to pass-life-times can stretch from a few hours

I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it's so important for me to do things that I'm passionate about.

I've been blessed. God's looked out for me, so, I'm happy.

I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!

When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough, keep on, and a larger thing then you were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this.