The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.

I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.

There had to be a better way - if I couldn't find it, I wanted to create it.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [...] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.

Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.