“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.”

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.

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.

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.

Oh darling, falling in love overrated. The real magic is in a love that stays.

Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.

I’m not reasonable I’m fucking magic.

People are as wonderful as skies. As mysterious as magical. As sweet as tragical.

Holding on to something that has lost its magic, lost its mutual respect, hurts more. Elsa understood the assignment.

When you trust the universe, you get to play in the magical world of God’s plan.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one.