“I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.”

I’m not an industry artist – I’m an artist in the industry.

The truth is undeniable. You tell somebody the truth, it’s undeniable.”

I can reach people the average person can’t reach because I’m as grounded as I am.

The toughest guys have the biggest hearts. The biggest hearts – because they have to be tough to protect it.

Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.

I’m actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.

I’m not going to disrespect you, don’t disrespect me.

There shouldn’t be any violence in hip-hop. You’re getting free clothes. Basically, it’s free money.

Anything that’s not positive, I don’t have the energy to focus on it. Anything that’s not going in the right direction, I don’t have the time or the energy.

I been the same dude my whole life.

The curse turned to grace when the hurt turned to faith.

There’s a difference between violence and senseless violence.

I’m still the same. That’s why the fans love me. Because they need stability in the industry.

I don’t have to be working on an album to record a song.

You can’t call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.

I can forgive, I just can’t forget.

Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

I have some amazing fans! They’re just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I’m like NO ONE and I’m just starting out and these people appreciate your work and it’s nice to hear that.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

You may never appreciate how beautiful it is to love and be loved, until your hearts been broken.

My ears are open to all sorts of stuff. I appreciate some of the big electro house guys.I love their music but I also like a lot of the stuff coming out of the U.K. Future garage stuff. A lot of stuff like that.

If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.

If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.