I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.

I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

American music culture is black culture.