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

I don’t judge too much as long as it’s good. As long as it’s good music and good artistry, I’m with it.

Used to tell me the sky’s the limit, now the sky is our point of view.

I wanted to make the soundtrack of people’s lives.

Girls only say I hate you to the guys that they love.

Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love?

Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world, but I didn’t know Eminem and I didn’t know anybody who knew Eminem.

The best advice I have been given is to live in the moment, as cliché as that sounds. It’s crazy.

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs – that’s what I am.

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

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.

I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.

Do awards change careers? Well, I haven’t heard of many stories where that’s the case. It’s a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who’ve done well that year in certain people’s eyes, and it’s nothing more than that.

One thing is that I wasn’t getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold.

Awards don’t really mean much.

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I’d rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.