“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.”

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.

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.

The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.

My cousin’s gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.

A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’

The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.