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.

I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.

I'm a track star running through life, chasing my dream.

Death gotta be easy cause life is hard

I make music cuz it's almost like I can escape everything I was involved in. All I gotta do is make music. I don't do nothin but make music.

Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.