“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 love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?

Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That’s what makes a marriage work.

I’m high off the indo creepin’ with the quickness to the cut, bust one to his head while he munches on that donut.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

I’d rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He’s trying to kill everybody in jail.

When I’m lovin’ these hoes, there ain’t no love involved.

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.

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

No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one.

Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

If you knew that miracles could happen, what miracles would you wish for? If you knew that you could have it all and do anything you wanted, what would you choose to have and what would you choose to do?

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

I hope something magical happens to you today.

The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself.