My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.

For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

So many affluent men are faced with finding love problems. I'm sure beautiful, affluent women are faced with the same things sometimes.

I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a chance to make something of it, I'd see someone else do it. I just liked to watch my fellow artists become entrepreneurs and be people who can inspire the next generation. I did that more with my songs.