I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.

You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.