“I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.”

There’s no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

I don’t care about how many times somebody recognizes my face.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin to assassinate my character, thats impossible. You talkin about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

I ain’t never preyed on the weak. I ain’t never gone and picked on a guy that I knew I could beat up, even as a kid. People wanna make me seem like I’m [that] type of guy.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it’s always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don’t act like it wasn’t you.

I think the biggest misconception about me probably is … I don’t prey on the weak. I ain’t a bully, but I ain’t no saint, either.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

I’m gonna make sure everybody get their justice. This the year for business, this the year for my book, this the year for the movie and this the year for getting even. I’m on my way.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

You got good and bad people everywhere.

I’m passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin’ to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life – it’s what helps you survive.

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it’s a struggle sustaining that, because there’s such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin.

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.

Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global – that has a global presence that’s involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera.

My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.