“If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it’ll just always be shallow.”

Name a sexual disease, she got it like Sam Goody.

It ain’t that I’m too big to listen to the rumors, It’s just that I’m too damn big to pay attention to ’em.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of you.

I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high. You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

I don’t have room in my life for folks that large and demanding.

I am never going to give music up.

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

People are always coming up to me, thinking I’ve got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.

I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes… Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.

You’re a victim from my drive-by of thoughts.

Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I’m sitting in the studio, a mix isn’t done till I feel it in my gut.

When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.

I’m bad for your health, like puttin’ a pistol up to your face and blastin’ yourself.

I’m gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.

Where thou art, that is home.

Your body is not your art – it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork.

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.