"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"

"This life is a process of learning."

"I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love."

"Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?"

"I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody."

"I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am."

"Real religion is no religion at all."

"I believe God will make a way."

"We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it."

"Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work."

"I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show."

"We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else."

"From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress."

"I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others."

"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in."

"The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do."

"Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us."

"You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice."

"Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships."