Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

Young bloods can't spell but they could rock you in PlayStation...

You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.

But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.

It’s one thing to be the greatest; it’s another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.