I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

I like pushing boundaries.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

I can express myself.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.