"The best advice I have been given is to live in the moment, as cliché as that sounds. It's crazy."

"High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note."

"Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you'll have some of the best times of your life."

"I'm the type to have a bullet-proof condom and still gotta pull out."

"From the inside looking out you can never see how it looks from the outside looking in."

"I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of."

"Girls only say I hate you to the guys that they love"

"I'm not that big, physically. I'm just big where it counts - I got a big heart!"

"I'd be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullsh*t that I hear a day."

"Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view."

"A man that can master patience can master anything."

"Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything."

"You live and you learn, man. I've learned you can't wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself."

"I got a dream that's worth more than my reality."

"The higher the goal, the harder the climb, but after that the bigger the muscle the, smarter the mind."

"Working with Kanye is one of the greatest things ever. It's also one of the most nerve-wracking things ever. He's, like, the most critical, particular, artistic person ever."

"Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era."

"The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as much as they could, so they put me in a private school when I was super young."

"I'm a sneakerhead. I probably have a couple hundred pair of shoes. I got all sorts of shoes."

"It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got."

"Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous."

"My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City."

"Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class."

"I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music."

"I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song."

"People don't realize I'm a very spiritual person."

"I feel like I changed hip-hop."

"I'm a Detroit player, they set styles."

"I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person."

"When I'm home, I cook my own dinner, all organic."

"People who tend to listen to my music have come back and said, 'Yo, this is my anthem. This is what I live by.'"

"I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people."

"It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that."

"I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man."

"When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example."

"I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way."

"I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold."

"For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South."

"Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get it done, I'll jot it down, but I never write a rap out, ever."

"With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style."

"Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are."

"I've definitely stolen a lot of things."

"I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life."

"Sometimes I feel like putting on a blazer with just a T-shirt."

"I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it."

"I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes."

"I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach."

"I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible."

"I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color."

"I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives."