I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

No flip flops for black dudes. I don’t care where you at. Wear some hot ass Jordans on the beach.

I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!

I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen