When you walk in a room, the room should feel that this guy's different. What does he do? Who is he? And that's confidence, not cockiness.

I love my beard.

When I used to sit in the office with Jay Z and L.A. Reid... we would negotiate back and forth and discuss music. You're sitting in front of someone for hours. It's all about being passionate. Everything begins with yourself.

I ain't trying to keep up with the trends - the hats, the hair colours, the dress codes.

When I was sitting at home watching 'Yo! MTV Raps' as a kid, seeing the bright jackets excited me.

John Legend is brilliant. I feel he may be my best collaborator when it comes to delivering that undeniable soulful sound, and he does it in such a classy way.

I feel like I can make records where, you know, I can get in the alley and exchange bars with Styles P, but I can also get in the studio and create a classic with Rihanna.

If you set a regimen up, you can lose weight. I grinded my weight off.

Everybody who know Rick Ross know that, for one, I love creating music, and one of the biggest impacts we have on the game was the fact that when we came into the game, artists was waiting two to three years to put out albums. I was one of the few that put out an album every year along with two or three mixtapes.

What I did in '06 with 'Port of Miami' was classic for that era, for that time frame, and in 2017, 'Rather You Than Me' will be the same.

I ain't gonna lie: I love that cheese.

When someone mentions my name because they're attacking someone that I'm close with, it's my problem now.

I'll always be a supporter of Reebok. That's a forever thing.

DJ Khaled most definitely knows how to rock a party.

The rollout of a classic has to have the heart of all the people working it. There's no way they can have their heart in it if they don't believe in it.

Toomp produced 'White House' on my first record, and we made magic.

Miami is a party city, a go-fast city.

In high school, I played football and became an all-American offensive lineman, but my father hadn't been to any of my games. In those instances, you still hold your head up high. But, when you look up into the stands and you see everyone else's parents cheering and supporting, you have to just stay focused and push through.

What makes 'Maybach Music V' so special was, of course, I put the album out celebrating my daughter's birthday as well, and DeJ Loaf is her favorite artist. So 'Maybach Music V,' I wanted a real airy type of feel. Just a real slow vibe to it that's also going to surprise my daughter. So that's real special.

I was a real avid 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' fan. I think I may know every episode.

My kids love me. I'm blessed.

I'm fortunate enough to socialize with some of the greatest musicians around.

I come from Carol City. The city renamed it Miami Gardens.

For anybody that grow a beard or have hair on their face, I welcome you to the beard game. We're all family. I encourage that. I encourage beards.

I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists who are preoccupied; they don't have as much time as they used to to be in the studio.

I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House.

There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater.

Let me see the 'Cuban missiles on the island' picture. Trump needs to see it before networks need to see it.

I think health care is a mess. I think that, as a free market person, you can't even have that discussion unless you know what the service costs.

How many muni areas have actually defaulted, by the way? Just a question.

The last place I'm ever going to live or work is D.C.

I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in power because, at the end of the day, they work for every citizen.

It's a philosophy that - 'We, the People' - it's about us, that if the Americans want to do something, they have the power to try to put leaders in place to carry out whatever their notions are.

While the vandals are on the street corners, the Tea Party conservatives, they're working state houses, the governorships, the mayorships, the Senate, the House.

People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it.

When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I found that it was a very useful tool that complemented the much more mainstream tools generically referred to as fundamental analysis.

People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.

I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better.

Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.

I think it is a mistake for candidates, or once they get elected in office, to be dwelling too much on the topic of markets.

Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee.

We now have the technology to pretty much hear everything. Can you imagine how our holiday dinners would be if every relative's entire conversations from birth to that moment in time was shown to every other relative?

Believe me. When you're talking about trust in government, you're preaching to the choir, whether it's on the financial side, the central banking side: we see areas where the government does good jobs; we see areas where they don't do as good a job.

When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies.

I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.

Printing money - is it really the answer? ... If we just print a million dollars for every man, woman, and child in the country and handed it to them, won't that fix everything? Because in order to really look at printing - I like to take everything to the extreme.

Look at the Weimar Republic and their hyperinflation in the early '20s. It didn't happen overnight. I've used the analogy, it's a lot like soybeans: you plant 'em, you wait. Conditions take some time. You need some sun; you need some water, but ultimately things start to grow, and are we in that phase or not?

The issue is, you're not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity.

You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It's not the year I was born. I'm a little older than that. I wish it was the year I was born. It was the year one of my favorite books was written: 'Atlas Shrugged.' Ayn Rand.

Think Apple, think the FBI. We are living 'Atlas Shrugged.' Why is it so important? Because I would hate for the country to have that rhetorical question: Where is John Galt, who is John Galt? John Galt is all of us.