“The music becomes more pure and soulful when it’s true, and it has to be true.”

Never give up until you’ve given out all your very best. It’s better to fail trying than wondering what could have happened if you tried.

If you ain’t aim too high, then you aim too low!

If you place your importance on appreciation and love, that’s enough.

My intuition is telling me there’ll be better days

I know I’m blessed because yo’ stress is realer than anything I done been through.

The same ones you love will bring you pain.

I’d rather be happy being myself than sad trying to please everyone else.

I no longer bury demons, I be a vessel for the truth until I’m barely breathing, I’m singing.

Every loser gotta win and every winner gotta lose someday.

I keep my head high, I got my wings to carry me. I don’t know freedom, I want my dreams to rescue me.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

And the strongest drug of them all – Love.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

A little jealousy in a relationship is healthy. It’s always nice to know someone is afraid to lose you.

In a game full of liars it turns out that I’m the truth. Some say that rap’s alive. It turns out that I’m the proof.

I swear I walk with God, but the devil keeps following.

At the end of the day, Fool’s Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There’s a ton of great music coming out.

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.

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren’t necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

I think one of the biggest things that’s changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We’re getting closer and closer to an artist performance.

I’m one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.

I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would’ve been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.

Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.