“I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.”

My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.

I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.

You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.

You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn’t have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

I’m a big fan of Common. I’m a big fan of Scarface; I’m a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to… well, there are a lot of people’s music that I respect.

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me.

DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing… At the end of the day, it’s up to us to control and to own hip-hop.

I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.

I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn’t know how many people would respect it.

Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.

I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.

Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.

A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.

You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.

Money is just paper that gets us through life.

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.

Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.