“I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.”

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.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Hope opportunity don’t knock when opportunists in your group.

Success to me is just being able to do what you love to do and support yourself all through.

Having strong enemies is a blessing.

Without a game plan and without a strong sense of faith in what you’re doing, it’s gonna be really hard to accomplish anything.

Be your own biggest fan, your own biggest believer, and put it on your back and carry the weight.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon’ die without it.

Most important thing is to get rid of doubt. If you got doubt in what you’re doing it’s not gonna work.

I feel that luck is a product of hard work.

To me, respect comes first.

Most the time, when it rains it starts pouring, but how we grind it makes the weather change for us.

Be a man of your word, do what you say you’re gonna do, respect people the way you would like to be respected.

People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn’t for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.

Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He’s working on you, too.

Pressure makes diamonds.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Each pendant has a special meaning so I try not to leave the house without them.

I’m into crystals and good energy and harnessing more. It’s just like prayer. It helps you be grateful, think about good things, and keep that positive energy around you.

The pearls on her wrist, giving out the green light of emerald nurturing, sparks the flame of life in his eyes.