“I gotta stay in that light where people will see me and hear me. And not be scared of me, you know?”

I have three kids, and that’s a big part of staying focused.

I’m really living my dream so if I were to change anything up, I probably wouldn’t be where I am.

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

I’m just trying to show people that I ain’t gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself.

Niggas want to kill me and y’all still wit em and y’all chill wit em and y’all wonder why we not friends.

I use the studio as my drug. That’s where I relieve everything at – the studio.

I just wanted to speak to the streets and give them motivation on making it out. Whatever situation they’re in, know that they can make do and have a better life.

You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you’ve got to be different and even more better.

It feels good to be in a place now where I can give back to my community.

You got to want to evolve. It’s something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn’t really sitting there like, ‘What can I do to get better?’ It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at.

We made the impossible possible if we do a deluxe baby we gotta put Nicki on it.

I was so focus on making sure everybody else was happy I lost track of my own feelings.

There’s definitely a lot of responsibility to keep the good energy going.

No shade to the other artists in Chicago, but if you got confidence in yourself and you know you’re Number One, say it.

When I began to rap, I wasn’t taking it real serious. As I start seeing good things, it’s getting serious.

I don’t wish jail on nobody, not even my worst enemies.

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it’s going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

Don’t believe everything you hear about me, who can speak louder than me, wearing your last name instead of mine.

There’s plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I’ll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

Once heard, Never forgotten!

And then there are songs I cannot listen to, without hearing you.

To me when I hear a song, its a positive thing because it reminds me of when I started!

Don’t believe everything you hear, don’t believe everything you read and only believe half of what you see.

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.