“If I die young, everybody’s going to say they saw it coming.”

It’s just like we do over here in America, right? It’s amazing that we have presidents over here do the same thing, right?

Sometimes I’m not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I’m always looking to do more.

You can love me or you can hate me.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn’t want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

I’m very particular about who I sleep with.

I couldn’t care less if the guy I’m guarding has HIV. I’m going to slam him anyway.

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

What I saw in that country, I saw in that country and I saw people respect him and his family and that’s what I mean about that.

If I want to wear a dress, I’ll wear a dress.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don’t become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren’t able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

Black culture is something I don’t relate to much at all.

The NBA’s chosen ones think I’m setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.

We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they’re not like him.

Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I’ve ever had has been about 50-50 songs I’ve written or co-written and other people’s songs.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I’m not, and there’s no use wishing

Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

I would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.

When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That’s what the trees are all about.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

Everybody gets what he deserves.