Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers.

Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.

I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long. So you just gotta figure out ways in this insane business to keep it fresh.