One of my most popular songs, 'Satellites,' I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose... I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

I don't just listen to rap.

I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.

It's a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

I've always been a loner.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don't really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it's way more intricate than what meets the surface.

I'm not no Internet person.

I always wanted a family.

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

I've had mixtapes that have been better than albums I've heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that's scary. It is what it is, man, I don't be trippin'. I couldn't tell God when I wanted to be born.

I think California has the best energy.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I'm not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

I've just always been a reader.

I'm a felon. I get pulled over all the time.

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can't make music.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I'm in.

I like being with my family. That's my party.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn't do any of this. God did. I don't have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

I don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.

I don't know how the rap game is, because I'm a fan of reality, and the rap game's entertainment.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

I'm never on Twitter. I'm never on Instagram. And that's not by choice: it's just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain't really been my focus.

I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem.

Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice.

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I'm in.

Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.

When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project - 'There's One In Every Family,' 'Street Life' - I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, 'cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.

I look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, 'cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn't have. So I still get them.

If you look at the movie 'Belly,' I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I'm not in the game for the wrong reasons. I'm not in the game for the glory. I'm in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I'm a highly intelligent individual.

I attended college in prison. I was in jail, so there ain't no going to no classes. They have programs in certain facilities where you can earn good time, and then you get time taken off your sentence. But as far as going to classes, it's not like that. You study, and then an administrator gives you a test. I got a Master's in psychology.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

I'm a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don't look like the typical reader. I'm in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.