“I used to really like Method Man and Redman for some reason. And Fabolous. A lot of New York rappers, too. Cam’ron. Jim Jones. Hurricane Chris.”

I’m gonna keep Very Rare as a street brand. I wanna make a new clothing brand and group. It’s gonna be more… high fashion.

You have to be strong for people when you don’t wanna be strong. You have to be clean-showered, clean, clean-cut for people. You have to set an example.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

Timbaland is my favorite producer.

I want to make people have fun again and show people that people can just rap and snap.

I don’t like being categorized as a rapper. I make music; I don’t just rap.

I don’t want to ever be categorized. I want to be able to hit every genre.

I want to make theme-setting music, music that sets a theme without being cliche.

Every time before I go on stage, I’m nervous.

One thing that I do want to say is Drake, as an artist, anybody has to respect him. He’s in the game, and he’s been in the game – he has longevity, even if he doesn’t write or writes his music.

If you see somebody dressing like me, you know they’re purposely trying to dress like me because I dress like nothing.

I know I do swag rap also, but I also take it seriously. It’s like 50-50.

Music changed my life in so many ways.

At the time me and X met, we weren’t homeless, but we were basically homeless.

I’ve always wanted to make that change from a rapper into an artist.

Faucet Failure’ was my favorite because I just had fun with it, and it was just 10 minutes, and I didn’t overthink anything, and I wanted to just have fun with the song.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. “Look at that!” “You never do that for me!”

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.