"I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own."

"Kanye didn't sign me to hold my hand and walk me through my career. He signed me because he believed in me as an artist and gave me a co-sign. I didn't see that at first. I saw it as him about to hold my hand, and I'm about to be the biggest artist because he's the biggest artist, you know?"

"People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums, if you're being recognized for making good ass beats, good ass raps, you're finally famous."

"It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I'm by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I'm on my way up. I feel like I'm going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it's real to do what you want to do."

"Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to Tha Carter II, to Dedication 1 & 2, to Da Drought, his mixtapes. You know you got that for him as him being a rap legend, somebody who you look up to."

"Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them."

"Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!"

"I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally."

"The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them." (The Decider, July 21, 2007)"

"Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?"

"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake--you know, to send the right message to kids."

"I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma."

"Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance."

"We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities."

"I think religion is a neurological disorder."

"Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex."

"We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels & free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep & conformists."

"Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position."

"That's what's so great about the Internet. It allows pompous blow-hards to connect with other pompous blow-hards in a vast circle-jerk of pomposity."

"The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs."

"I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog is to use parts of the animal that the Chinese can't figure out how to make into a belt? -timecode 1:11:10"

"Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom."

"You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash."

"The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people."

"Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?"

"To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'."

"I find that the world is changing much, much faster than I can even bitch about it."

"Don't you miss the days when America was just MORALLY bankrupt?"

"If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod."

"You know... there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time.... husband!!!"

"Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage."

"Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic."

"The "Power of One" is a slogan--not a goal."

"You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery."

"When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise."

"Obama is not a secret Kenyon, or a secret Muslim, he's a secret Republican."

"If a fourteen year-old can deliver your message, it's not because he's gifted. It's because intellectually, you're a child."

"If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it "proactive intelligence screening" or "high alert detecting", people would be saying "Well, it's about time"."

"Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin."

"I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it."

"You would think there is a higher bar than having a Facebook page to run for president."

"This is the worst thing to happen to beaches since the Speedo."

"You don't need a weapon to protect yourself."

"We're all gonna be gay if we get health care!"

"Kadafi is a zombie in a pillbox hat, that's what he is!"

"My personal savior is common sense. And as far as God goes, I prefer to believe in one that would want me to use the excellent brain he gave us all."

"We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected."

"My bank must stop trying to sell me identity theft protection. You know why I expect you to protect my money? Because you're a bank."

"New Rule: You don't have to put the cap back on the bottled water after every sip. It's water, not a genie."

"To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity."