I finally realized that until you understand why you do things, you have no control over what you do.
You have to go through ups and downs. Mistakes turn into lessons.
Value everyone you know they might be gone tomorrow
I love the rowdiness, I love how crazy it is during the day. There's a business about it that's great. There's never a dull moment, so it really inspires the music I write.
Talent isn't really enough to make it in any world. If you're trying to be a superstar, or at the highest rate of fame, you have to have personality too. You have to be a well-rounded person. It takes way more than talent nowadays.
The point of my music? The point I just want to get across is I'm me and I exist. Just letting people know who I am. Ever since I was young, I was the little attention grabber; I always loved attention. I want to grab people's attention. I want them listen to me and know that this is really good music. Whether they like it or not, they're gonna listen.
Who doesn't like money? I love money. Why not. My subject matter will change when I get to that point.
Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
Every day is a good day, and if you don't believe me, just try missing one of them.
A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.