“I always had faith in my creative capacity.”

If you have strong faith, your God will love you.

Money is a tool – it’s the means, not the end. Inspiration is the metric that dictates whether or not a project is a success.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in, even if the reward is massive!

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

I built a company at the same time I built a career.

Study your Queen so you can give her what she wants without asking.

No one in life can enjoy peace until they know the meaning of it.

On a mission, your worst enemy is idle time.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Luck is just bein’ prepared at all times, so when the door opens you’re ready.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.

One thing I teach my children and want everyone to know that even if you happen to be on a pedestal you should have the capacity to turn around and say, ‘I don’t know’. We are scared to go wrong. Downfall is part of life.