Diet food is for lazy people.

I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.

Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.

Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.