Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

Keep doin' what you're doin', fall in love with what you're creating, and everything else will fall into place.

You got to get used to somebody, when you're acting or going through a scene, somebody yelling, "Do it a little louder!" OK, you do it a little louder.

The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can always pull those nice little tidbits that hook people, that shows that you know about this world and can bring people into a world that they may not know nothing about.

The way I grew up and the neighborhood I come from, when you know somebody's beating you and you still let it happen, then you're a victim. You're no longer a man when you know something is happening and you don't stand up. So that's just how we raised.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

You always want your kids to step up at the moment of truth.