Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

Honey isn't really that good for you.

Better think while it's still legal.

I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen