“As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see.”

To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you’ll have the best times.

I want to win some awards, sell more records – just do whatever I want.

I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.

I’m really vulnerable onstage because it’s just me. I’m not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don’t want anybody else to do that.

Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you’ll have some of the best times of your life.

From the inside looking out you can never see how it looks from the outside looking in.

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I’ve worked on – it’s really about just being the artist I am.

Even though it’s tiring, I’m having the time of my life.

Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He’s somebody who I’ve seen put that grind in over the years.

Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you’ve held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.

Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs – that’s what I am. That’s why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

I feel like when you’re a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you’re a real person.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..

failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.

The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.

I really want to be the black Mr. Rogers – that’s my goal. I would do everything the same but with a hip-hop feel to it.

The good thing about social media is that we can connect in a different way that helps us not feel alone in this crazy world.

I’ve been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?