“When I began to rap, I wasn’t taking it real serious. As I start seeing good things, it’s getting serious.”

I’m just trying to show people that I ain’t gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself.

Niggas want to kill me and y’all still wit em and y’all chill wit em and y’all wonder why we not friends.

I use the studio as my drug. That’s where I relieve everything at – the studio.

I just wanted to speak to the streets and give them motivation on making it out. Whatever situation they’re in, know that they can make do and have a better life.

You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you’ve got to be different and even more better.

It feels good to be in a place now where I can give back to my community.

You got to want to evolve. It’s something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn’t really sitting there like, ‘What can I do to get better?’ It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at.

I gotta stay in that light where people will see me and hear me. And not be scared of me, you know?

We made the impossible possible if we do a deluxe baby we gotta put Nicki on it.

I was so focus on making sure everybody else was happy I lost track of my own feelings.

There’s definitely a lot of responsibility to keep the good energy going.

No shade to the other artists in Chicago, but if you got confidence in yourself and you know you’re Number One, say it.

I don’t wish jail on nobody, not even my worst enemies.

I can buy anything I want now. It hasn’t changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.

I like aiming for the producers who are hungry. I don’t chase the wave.

It’s safe to say I changed the game and made it out the trenches.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.

No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life’s journey can be different. With God’s help you can begin again.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

I stepped into love with grace. I stepped out of love with grace. The beginning was beautiful. The ending was beautiful.