When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. If you're listening to a record and it's really hot, then you'll be looking for something that feels like that, or that has a version of it.

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.

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

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.

You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords.

The more my fans know about my past, the more they'll be able to predict and understand some of the moves I make in the future.