Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.

I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.

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

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

I used to carry a notebook to the studio. I don't do that no more 'cause I don't have the time to write anywhere but right there in the studio on the spot. So when you hear my stuff, know that I wrote it in the studio.

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

The big stars in rap, they were too big, so when my rap generation started, it was about bringing you inside my apartment. It wasn't about being a rap star; it was about anything other than.