“If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it’ll just always be shallow.”

I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?

Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That’s what makes a marriage work.

I’m high off the indo creepin’ with the quickness to the cut, bust one to his head while he munches on that donut.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

I’d rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He’s trying to kill everybody in jail.

When I’m lovin’ these hoes, there ain’t no love involved.

Name a sexual disease, she got it like Sam Goody.

It ain’t that I’m too big to listen to the rumors, It’s just that I’m too damn big to pay attention to ’em.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of you.

I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high. You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

I don’t have room in my life for folks that large and demanding.

I am never going to give music up.

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

People are always coming up to me, thinking I’ve got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn’t identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.