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

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

You have to challenge yourself and your muscles. When you are really regimented, it's the same over and over and you start to get comfortable. Switching up the style of training works your muscles differently.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

At first, my love was just to be in the studio and make the music and enjoy it when I hear it played back, but then the biggest thing for me was to see the response of the people. When you go out and see the energy in the crowd, it's incredible.

When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.