"My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica, Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah, Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke."

"My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica, Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah, Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke."

"I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that."

"I don't call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond."

"In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff."

"Ariana is a huge supporter of mine; she's a big fan - she told me that when I met her. She's cool, her voice is crazy, she's got a great, great voice."

"Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years."

"It's easier to record in LA than in New York and Detroit, because the space in LA is green, and there's sunshine, and I need all those positive vibes."

"I'm just a Westside lover, I leave females in my sheets and all my feelings in a rubber."

"I feel like that's why we're here on this earth; to manifest what we want, to live a life, to have the best sex, drink the best champagne and to live it up and control it. That's what it's all about."

"I'm not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it's real."

"I work really hard - that doesn't mean I deserve anything, but it's really cool to see the positive reaction people give to something you worked so hard on. It's one of the best feelings."

"I want people to feel like they can do anything."

"Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I’m just doing better than what everybody projected."

"Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to."

"I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it."

"God made me in my beautiful form so I'm just trying to execute it."

"I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art."

"I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art."

"To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times."

"Man the life of a workaholic... You either on ya work or just workin on it."

"I think just dreaming big and having aspirations is important. So you know I want to be the greatest of all time at what I do and if you're not trying to be the greatest at what you do then you're not doing it for real."

"I feel like you should be confident in whatever you do, and a lot of my new music [that's coming out] I want people to judge more so than the music I've put out recently, because I feel like it's really changed a lot."

"I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that."

"It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher."

"Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love?"

"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."