Music Quotes

We did some massive flirting in front of the nation, but there was never anything more than that.

God gave you them shoes to fit you, so put them on and wear them. Be yourself man, be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, don't let no one tell you, you ain't beautiful.

Cause sometimes, you just feel tired. Feel weak. And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. You gotta find that inner strength, and just pull that shit out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Success is my only option, failure's not.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

You don't get another chance. Life is no Nintendo game.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.