I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

Life without dreaming is a life without meaning.

Charles is Charles. Wale is Wale. It's two separate entities that have nothing to do with each other and probably will never have anything to do with each other and I wish him the best.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

If I woke up tomorrow and didn't have a dolla, as long as I have my heart, I can get it all over.

I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.