“Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.”

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Luck is just bein’ prepared at all times, so when the door opens you’re ready.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

A speaker of truth has no friends.

We’re not the cause, we’re the effect.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

I’m focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I’ve either read or I plan on getting to.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

All the smart money got they bets on me and all the real niggas wish the best for me.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.

A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill.

Many bills and many amendments that get passed get passed by a voice vote. They don’t actually get voted in by roll call, meaning all 435 members don’t vote on many of the bills.

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street’s excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.

The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.

It was the Buffalo Bills at the Minnesota Vikings on NBC. It went to about five markets.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.