In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things."

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.

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.