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.

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

86% of its audience was made up of people of color. That tells you that the full potential of many black stars won't be realized until their audiences are fully integrated.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

Happy can make you money, but money can't make you happy.

A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.

In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.