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

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

The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own

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

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.

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.