“There’s nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.”

I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

You pay to have a good time, you don’t always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain’t always the place for that.

I always want to read the script before I totally commit.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.

If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don’t understand that.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.

A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.

To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.

You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it’s only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

I’m not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I’m not into that. You do your job, and I’ll do mine.

I don’t like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

Stay far from timid, only make moves when your heart’s in it, and live the phrase ‘sky’s the limit.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.

I feel limited in some ways because I have such young fans. But I’m okay with that; I do everything I want to do.

Used to tell me the sky’s the limit, now the sky is our point of view.

Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.

Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future.

You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.