“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’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 been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes… Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.

You’re a victim from my drive-by of thoughts.

Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I’m sitting in the studio, a mix isn’t done till I feel it in my gut.

When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.

I’m bad for your health, like puttin’ a pistol up to your face and blastin’ yourself.

I’m gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges.

I’ve looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I’m there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I’ve been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

I don’t even listen to the records after they come out. It’s outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can’t play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it’s just business. Numbers.

I’m expressin’ with my full capabilities, And now I’m livin in correctional facilities. Cause some don’t agree with how I do this, I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man’s mind.

Comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else.

It’s so empowering to see so many people uniting over love and art.