“My message is just showing people how I came from nothing.”

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.

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.

I can buy anything I want now. It hasn’t changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.

I like aiming for the producers who are hungry. I don’t chase the wave.

When we stand together there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot accomplish.

Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you’re going to fail, you probably will.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

I’ve fought for hard-working Americans my entire career and I’m proud of everything I’ve accomplished. But I’m not done yet.

We can accomplish anything if we do it together.