A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

Men lie, women lie, numbers dont

Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.

Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here