“I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It’s, like, a suburb in the area; it’s middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six.”

I don’t look at myself as a designer; I’m focused on music.

I was a smart kid. I went to a private school in middle school and got kicked out.

I’m a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.

I’m attached to the beat. The best speaks words. I love Music.

I feel like Houston is one of the leading things in music culture. Everyone loves the Houston culture. It needs to have its own monument, its own moment for artists like me, artists like Beyonce who set it off.

I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It’s very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It’s not really based on a label anymore. Everything is pretty much in the control of the artist. Which is amazing.

Beyonce is, like, the highest level. We all reach that level.

Don’t do it tomorrow. Do it now. There might not be tomorrow.

My whole story is straight mythical. It’s tangible, but it’s also what life could be.

I’m always up for collaborating with brands and people who actually design, but doing your own line is a whole other beast. I don’t think I could deal with the criticism.

I have black friends, but I don’t just hang out with black kids. I might pull up with Indian kids, white kids, black kids, whatever.

I’m just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they’re around me.

We made a bond to neva forget.

I will be playing until the sun up.

Cactus world, I’m just living in it.

If I didn’t have the ends, I wouldn’t have so many imaginary friends.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

If you’re 30, 40 years old, you’re not getting listened to by minors. Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age, forever.

What I love about my audience is it’s extremely diverse as far as the ethnicities and the ages that show up.

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.

Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.