“I want to win some awards, sell more records – just do whatever I want.”

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.

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

Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you’ve held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.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

Chains and stuff are nice, don’t get me wrong I love them and I wear chains, but I can do without it.

One thing is that I wasn’t getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold.

Awards don’t really mean much.

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I’d rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.

When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding.

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.