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

I’m happy with the person I become.

Nobody got your back like you do remember that.

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’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.

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

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.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush.

I know I’m not the kind of person who’s gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock ‘n’ roll artists. They just play their hits and that’s it. That doesn’t appeal to me.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

Art is the sound of a human dying to be an immortal artist.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?