“My mama couldn’t give me what I wanted. I had all right clothes, but the people I was with had better clothes. I felt that I had to have better clothes.”

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

It’s Christmas time and my rhyme’s steady bumpin. Everybody happy, hair still nappy, Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy.

If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.

The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, ‘Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it.

The best advice I’ve ever got is to be yourself. Stay true to who you are and what you stand for and you’ll go far in life.

I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated.

Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.

It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.

What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.

Know when to lie to your kids.

I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.

When I’m not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

Do what your heart tells you is right.

I’ve always been a student, so I want to learn.

I’m not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don’t spend lots of money on stuff. I’m not really into TV, I don’t have an iPod, I’ve got a gramophone.

Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.

When I’m lying in bed I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn’t it? That I’m getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes.

My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who’d have thought I’d be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

I think clothes are very much a representation of your attitude and the way you feel. I really love to be dressed down, though.

I like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

My aim is to create the perfect dress!

For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.