When you read a book, and it's really, really beautiful, you're so engaged you forget to breathe. If you're in a car accident, and everything moves slowly, you can be shocked into the present. The past and the future disappear.

I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.

I don't want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.

You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.

Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.

If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.

You just have to smile and breathe. You do the best you can with what you have and that's it.