There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.

Expand your notion of what adversity is.

I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.

Here in Beacon, I feel like this was the worst year yet. The entire town, like a lot of winter towns, just kind of holed up in the winter.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

Nobody is born without fear. We are all born into this world screaming and crying, a bloody mess. We're afraid of failing. What differentiates people is that some of them tend to deal more with fearful situations and understand that it's hurting them in life. That by becoming fearful they're maiming themselves and they learn to move past these fears.

Jay-Z is more naturally gifted. He didn't depend as much as 50 did on his personal story. Jay-Z has a great story, he came from a pretty rough background. But 50's early success was so much fueled on the story and where he came from. With Jay-Z, I feel he has a more natural gift for language and for music itself. 50 really had to study and work at it much harder.