“If you ain’t aim too high, then you aim too low!”

I went through a lot of heartbreak the first half of my career, maybe even longer, cuz deep down I needed that validation that I thought the awards could bring.

It hurt when you see peers go.

It was hard during preseason and the first week. But then I was like, wait, is it actually hard?

Time to stop seeking equality in a society that is morally inferior.

Despite the fear, we have to choose to jump or be forced to live with regret.

Right or wrong I can’t say, but I can say it was honest.

I don’t wanna be propped up by tearing somebody else down.

Some of us got grandparents that walked miles to work instead of riding bus, just to show the bus companies that they won’t tolerate racism.

We live in a strange time but this is our time.

How I can’t find a physical copy to my own shit.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

People congratulate me. I just tell them God is good.

I know Heaven is a mind state, I’ve been a couple times.

If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

As we speak I’m at peace, no longer scared to die.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.

Who am I to touch your soul while the world is spinning so fast.

And when I don’t utter a word, that is when I feel the most.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.