As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.

I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.

The same ones you love will bring you pain.

Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true

If I'm a character, it's a biographical movie. My character is as close to me as possible. As close to being myself as possible. So my character, J. Cole, is very close to Jermaine Cole.

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.