“I repeat it until it works. It is important to record, otherwise, you lose ideas. That’s why I never stay away from the studio, I always have something to ask.”

The best way to use the auto-tune is not to! And that’s what I do: I do not use auto-tune!

I spend more time with Gucci Mane or Birdman than 300, but all this is just family. Who cares about contracts?

It was Kanye West who spoke, and then we met and recorded some songs. After, you know what it is: we all bump like crazy.

You must not worry about leaks or pieces stolen on your computer. Just make songs, you gotta make music, keep stuff out. You may not know rap, but that’s how it works.

I know that everybody listens to me, but only my true fans will go and buy my album.

Use to get fly, but now I get pelican.

I always knew I could rap, and in a sense, I always rapped. And I’ve always behaved like a rapper. But I started to take it seriously when I recorded with the people of Brick when I started to receive some money.

It’s a pretty crazy thing in which I tried to make songs, real songs, not the quick stuff like on tape. A dose of Kendrick Lamar, a dose of J. Cole, because it’s got to be an album that goes in the club.

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.

If you’re 30, 40 years old, you’re not getting listened to by minors. Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age.

I know I have this image but in reality, if you take all my records, I had to use five or six tracks.

I’m signed to Atlantic through 300 Entertainment Lyor Cohen’s label. That is my only contractual relationship.

Let me show you how to really really bring the summer back.

I don’t want my kids saying, ‘My dad was a gangster, so I need to be a gangster. I would rather mine say, ‘My dad was a stunna, so I need to be a stunna.

I’m pretty sure JAY Z don’t wanna rap right now.

A mixtape is for the street, it’s something you without necessarily thinking about it because you have to stay in the game. It’s like writing an e-mail saying hello to your friends.

I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.

I’m reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and the structure of my brain is changing so rapidly sometimes.

I see a woman who is rather calm because she doesn’t know what is waiting for her in her life after this. I was still not “that woman” who was hated by the public. I was an artist with fresh ideas.

I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I’ve always thought.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.