I just get sick very easily.

I know for a fact that we're not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.

I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves.

I didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.

You can love somebody through anything when they're your child, and now that I understand that, it makes me work better with people; it makes me more understanding of how much dedication and love I can put into each line. There's no throwaway lines.

I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.

I want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world.

I would largely attribute my identity - as it relates to music labels and corporate music giants - to Dave Chappelle and his relationship to and firm standing in Hollywood.

I don't want to say this in a lame way, but D. Rose is one of my heroes. His whole story and background and what he's done for communities in Chicago is super inspiring.

I love theater, and I've always been a huge movie buff.

I'm a big R&B guy. I'm a huge R. Kelly fan.

I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.

I can't really speak on her policies, but I feel a certain connection to Hillary Clinton that's just not there with Donald Trump.

Where he tells you exactly how he views the world - just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself.

I'm a young dude from Chicago who grew up with Kanye as my image of hip-hop. Finding your voice in a room where you have to challenge Kanye is scary - but it's also life-affirming.

There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.

There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.

I would never run for any office or government position. I'm not into it.

I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents.

I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.

God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.

I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.

There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in a verse.

Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.

People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.

Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.

I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.

There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.

I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.' 'I'm a recording artist.' 'I'm a vocalist.'

I used to always rock a cap when I was in high school and get them taken away. It was an excessive amount. Like, so often that, at the end of each school year, there would be a box of all the confiscated caps. After they gave back a few caps to other kids, they would just give me the box because the rest were all my hats.

I don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.

I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.

My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.

I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.

There was a point where I just did not care about my body.

I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.

When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.

One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for people to recognize it as a gospel album.

I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.

Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.

Thankfully I have an ecosystem of in-laws, parents and husband, who are my rocks.

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.

Even if it does not become cashless economy, it will become a less cash economy, and I think that itself is going to be a good and big achievement, and I think we are, as a country, gone through many of large changes, and ICICI has been a leader in many of them.

Take destiny in your own hands.

To reap this demographic dividend, we need to enable the youth to acquire skills required to get the job or become self-employed.

India's growth drivers are actually two growth drivers. One is consumption, which arises out of our demographic advantage. And the other is the investments. Because we need a lot of investment in the country.

I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

You can maintain work-life balance even while pursuing careers.

It's not that the regulator doesn't want the banking industry to grow. The growth of the industry has always been in relation to the GDP (gross domestic product) growth.