Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.

The day Obama got elected, the gangsta became less relevant.

I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were tireless in taking him down, accepting as truth every accusation people made against him, assuming the worst until they drove him away. When he died, suddenly he was beloved again - people realized that the charges against him might really have been bogus, and that the skin lightening was really caused by a disease, and that his weirdness was part of his artistry. But when he was alive and on top, they couldn't wait to bring him down.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.