“I remember when I couldn’t afford to eat like this. It was ramen noodles and the San Francisco Treat [Rice-A-Roni]. Dessert? Get you a honey bun and put a slice of cheese on it. Put it in the microwave for 45 seconds and you had the gift of a lifetime.”

Am I really just a narcissist, Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?

How many people you bless is how you measure success.

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

Living fast where it’s all about the money bags? Never front.

Everywhere I go, I can’t wear everything a designer creates. I’m a little more gritty.

It’s a new year, new year, new money, money!

Every boss started as a worker.

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

I won’t sing to you like Chris and Ne-Yo, but I’m fresher than a stick of deo.

I like to write music for fun. That’s my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin’ alive, and it’s also my recreation, too.

I didn’t understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences were for murderers. I didn’t know that you could get it for supplying something to someone that they asked you for.

You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is – it’s only made to fool you. It’s the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.

All I ever wanted was to make scrilla Have a recording session with J Dilla.

You gotta judge a man by his principles.

He knockin’ on the door, let the devil in.

These haters can’t hold me back.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.

Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

The eye altering, alters all.

November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.