"I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked."

"Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned."

"If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something."

"You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me."

"For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

"To master the mind is to understand that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."

"I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty."

"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."