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

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

I built a company at the same time I built a career.

Study your Queen so you can give her what she wants without asking.

No one in life can enjoy peace until they know the meaning of it.

On a mission, your worst enemy is idle time.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

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.

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

If your drive, direction, and destiny are bigger than your current environment, build your own damn environment.

The environment can have a positive or negative effect on your development.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

When a flower doesn’t take growth, you change the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

Build an environment that nourishes your personal growth and let go of the toxicity that’s not moving you forward.⁠

The idea of feeling great at all times is purely fictional for a simple reason: we get bored of the same things, same feelings, same environments pretty quickly. If everything was always nice and great, you’d get depressed.

I love to go nature on walks and discover different plants, flowers and leaves, all beautiful and unique in their own way. It’s the small choices we make that have the greatest impact on the environment.