"Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them."

"Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love."

"Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end."

"I don't think that my tongue-in-cheekness will ever go away. I guess it's just a part of my personality. I always want to keep some type of element of fun to the music as well. If one song is darker or talking about a sad subject, I don't want to make a whole album of that, of being a downer. I don't want to make a whole album of being too uppity."

"My reputation grows with every failure."

"In the depths of adversity, every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it."

"If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering."