My story is more real life than most. Most Hall of Famers have great careers before they get inducted. I'm not supposed to be part of this conversation.

I became a Christian at about 26 years old as I was going through the process of playing Arena football and trying to get back into the NFL and pursue my dream.

My wife had been a Christian since twelve years old.

I think life is too sacred to ever take it in any circumstances, even for the cure of a disease or something like that.

The greatest impact you can have on people is never what you say but how you live... You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.

There's a huge yearning in our culture for something more... it's being more in touch with God... and what we were created to be.

The farther we go down a negative path, which we see every day, the more we yearn for the positive.

If so and so would have given me the right opportunity, or if this person would have encouraged me - I could have made a million excuses on why I wasn't playing in the NFL. You have no more excuses... what do you do from now until your opportunity presents itself? It's all up to you.

Faith lives inside of us in every circumstance.

I would love to be a creative offensive consultant where I could help design and help create plays and ways to attack other teams without having the coaching schedule.

I could see myself doing more color in the future - I love being able to analyze game by game and share the stories with the players.

I really feel like my story in modern day times is very similar to a biblical story: you know, somebody that nobody expected, that everybody said couldn't, and by God's grace and power, I was able to accomplish a lot.

I think a lot of people miss out on opportunities, they miss out on achieving their dream, and they miss out on doing what they love to do because they're allowing something else, something outside of them and outside of God, to dictate what their life's going to look like.

You have to learn how not to be defined by failure.

I want people to know that you can chase your dreams no matter where you are in your life, and it can work out. I know. It happened to me.

For me, as a pocket quarterback, there wasn't much adjustment as I got older.

When I played, I didn't have the strongest arm, and in a game, I never threw it as hard as I could, either.

It's hard for me to sit still.

My religion, that's who I am.

At some point, I had to ignore what people thought of me. I had to be my own biggest fan from an early age. Once I learned that, it was like a superpower. That was the armor that got me through high school.

We really have the power to illuminate all negative things in our life, but we have to find that light source inside of us and really tap in with it and reconnect with it.

'Beautiful Loser' had a lot of great records. It had a lot of really heartfelt songs on there. But I felt, at the time, it didn't have it's own cohesive sound.

If you can't love yourself, you can't love other people.

When I heard my first rap song and figured out what that was, I kind've stuck to it. I always wanted to be a musician in general, an entertainer. I just started rapping. I never decided, 'Oh, I want to be a rapper.'

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

Everybody on my street was broke, running around with no shoes on. We didn't have money, but we played tag, we talked. It was great.

When you roast yourself, it makes everybody else comfortable.

It's not about being happy 100 percent all the time, cause that's just life. I make sad songs, too, that really only make the happy songs better.

The Kyle who made 'Smyle' honestly has a little more conflict in his life. He has a little more weight on his shoulders. He feels like he has to make an album about something. It's a Kyle with duty, with a plan, with a responsibility.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn't afford braces.

If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility.

I'm definitely a West Coast artist, so much so that I'm gonna get 'Thug Life' tatted on my stomach one day.

Doesn't matter if you're sad or happy. I can be sad, you can be happy; it's all good. That's all I'm saying - let's just be us.

I would want people to be their own superheroes, save their own days, know that nobody else is gonna do it for you. You have to pick yourself up out of your dark moment; you gotta be your own source of light, just like I was for me.

My relationship with my father is fine. Every relationship has its ups and downs because bad things happen in all relationships. But for me, I can only write about what I'm feeling in the moment and something that actually happened to me.

I think love is, by far, the strongest force in the entire universe. Love is so strong, it'll make you do something that, in any other circumstance, you would never do.

My style has been compared to someone probably like the Fresh Prince.

Pete Rock, CL Smooth, all this East Coast stuff - that's kind of, like, the rappers I first admired. I wanna rap just like them because I just thought they were so hard. I thought their delivery was so crazy.

The name 'Light of Mine' came from how the album was conceived and what its purpose was in telling my story. I started making it at a time when I was, more or less, in a darker place than usual.

I don't think anyone has the same music sound as me. I can't think of anyone else.

I want to make an impact on people. Like John Lennon writing 'Imagine,' a song that changes an entire generation of people.

For me, I feel like the most important part of music is the storytelling behind it, and that's my favorite; that's what makes my favorite artists my favorite artists, having the story that I relate to the most and that helps me the most.

I know everywhere is cool and all, but, at least for me, I was lucky enough to be in southern California. I feel lucky to be from there... I feel like it taught me how to be polite.

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

I had the type of family who would tell all their kids, 'You're going to be president.'

When you start making music, you start making music at a young age, and for me, I just thought, like, 'Ahh, once you make it, all your problems will be solved, and everything will be fine.'

I'd love to be more involved in sports. There's so much positive energy - I have to be around it. Especially as I get older.

My momma will roast my friends all of the time. If you're one of my friends, and you meet my mom for the first time, she will definitely roast you in a polite way. It's just to test your bars.

I've been a nerd my whole life.

I really love 'Mr. Rager.' I know the first album is incredible, but my favorite Kid Cudi album is the second one.