Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things

If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

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

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