“I work really hard – that doesn’t mean I deserve anything, but it’s really cool to see the positive reaction people give to something you worked so hard on. It’s one of the best feelings.”

Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world, but I didn’t know Eminem and I didn’t know anybody who knew Eminem.

The best advice I have been given is to live in the moment, as cliché as that sounds. It’s crazy.

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs – that’s what I am.

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

I got a dream that’s worth more than my reality.

Man the life of a workaholic.You either on ya work or just workin on it.

You live and you learn, man. I’ve learned you can’t wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself.

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it’s definitely worth it.

There are so many people with great work ethics that I’ve been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 – and they are always the first ones to come up. That’s why I don’t Google myself, man.

Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.

I never look at it like I’m wasting money when I’m buying gold.

I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot – I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I’ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that’s the perfect name.

I don’t call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.

We don’t work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I’m not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

Don’t do your best, do whatever it takes.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.