A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.

The public is never wrong. When people don’t respond to what you do, they’re telling you something loud and clear. You’re just not listening.

Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.

If I'm focused while I'm strokin I could change how you walk

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."

Even the toughest guys are afraid to be anything outside of the toughest guys.

I think everyone should be happy. I think a fool is going to go against same sex marriage at this point. Look how long it took him [Obama] to say he was for same sex marriages. You understand? I'm up for it. If everyone else is for it, then hey, to each his own. I don't have personal feelings towards it because I'm not involved in that lifestyle. I want people to be happy. It makes for everything to be better