Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.

I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for.

If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.

It's cool when people know you more, but I like people to treat me regular when they see me. I take pictures. I don't really be big on people looking at me.

I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time.

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.