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

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Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you’ve held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.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

A man that can master patience can master anything.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.

I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.

What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.