“You pay to have a good time, you don’t always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain’t always the place for that.”

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it’s only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

I’m not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I’m not into that. You do your job, and I’ll do mine.

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.

The real is always presented. That hardcore record or movie is not needed in the hood, because it’s already there. You can see it with your own eyes.

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

My advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.

Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.

I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it’s cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.

There’s nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.

The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people who stuck with me.

Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.

When I’m good I’m very, very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.

Be good to people for no reason.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.