“Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He’s somebody who I’ve seen put that grind in over the years.”

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don’t want anybody else to do that.

Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you’ll have some of the best times of your life.

From the inside looking out you can never see how it looks from the outside looking in.

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I’ve worked on – it’s really about just being the artist I am.

Even though it’s tiring, I’m having the time of my life.

Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you’ve held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.

Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs – that’s what I am. That’s why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

I feel like when you’re a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you’re a real person.

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn’t boastful, but some of it is. But that’s just the music, the art.

As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see.

It’s evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

I’m not that big, physically. I’m just big where it counts – I got a big heart!

God made me in my beautiful form so I’m just trying to execute it.

Just out here workin’ hard and doin’ what we do best: grind, hustle, and anything possible to create new opportunities.

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction.

Luck? Luck is hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.

You don’t achieve success by “taking it easy” or “working on it later.” You achieve it through persistence and hard work.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.