“One thing you can’t do to a fan is change their heart about somebody.”

You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there’s a chance that you might not get to eat it while it’s hot.

You gotta’ sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.

Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.

To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

If you need one more reason, i love you.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.