I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.

I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm going to kill you and you're just going to kneel down to me because I'm the law.

Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio.

You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock. No matter how tough you become in the military, there's a way to die: there's nothing safe about it.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.