We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

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.

You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.

I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.