“I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.”

I can read people, and if the other person doesn’t want to say anything,

I’ve always thought darker characters were more fun to play.

What is the key to life on Earth?

I have been in control of what Ive been doing, of the career Ive put together.

They’re probably not any more complex or interesting than their good, law-abiding cousins, and I’d always tend to see things from their point of view.

Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I’m lovely, I’m completely lovely.

I’m fine with that. People say things when it’s time to say them.

It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.

For me, now, working and children is it. Theres nothing more to life.

I love the way I make hip-hop and I refuse to make pop-rap. I don’t refuse to make mainstream music, which is why I did a soul record. There was no reason why soul music couldn’t get played on the radio and I still wanted to have a relationship with my record label.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women

But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target

I didn’t make it to where I am today because of the support, more so because of the lack of it.

An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity.

I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.

Make films whenever and however you can – don’t take no for an answer.