My weapon of choice is my voice.

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

When your so focused on what people say, how can your really be focused on the music? If you're concerned with what someone says, you aren't working on a real record. You're working on something that's just for now, to please people this very second... because you don't believe in yourself.

My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers

I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow

When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.