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

I got a dream that’s worth more than my reality.

Man the life of a workaholic.You either on ya work or just workin on it.

You live and you learn, man. I’ve learned you can’t wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself.

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it’s definitely worth it.

There are so many people with great work ethics that I’ve been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 – and they are always the first ones to come up. That’s why I don’t Google myself, man.

Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.

I never look at it like I’m wasting money when I’m buying gold.

I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot – I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I’ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that’s the perfect name.

I don’t call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

I want people to feel like they can do anything.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

I work really hard – that doesn’t mean I deserve anything, but it’s really cool to see the positive reaction people give to something you worked so hard on. It’s one of the best feelings.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

The great artist is the simplifier.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

I do not seek. I find.