All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper....

Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me We in like that, you're dead like Presley.

I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be….

In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista..

For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the indivi….

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story..

I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, ….

How far must you go to gain respect? Um... Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own. Or you'll be crazy sad and alone..

To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but not….

I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does all art in my music, because there's stories, ….

know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain, You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'. And the stresses of life can take you off t….

Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used ….

Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop....

Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the ….

You never know: rain, sleet, hail, snow, See you gotta accept that's how things go. Prepare for the rainy day, or the sun's glow, But there's clou….

I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in..

I am recognizing that the voice inside my head Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else Because opinions are like voices, we all ha….

We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes; Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes..

Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics..

When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written..

Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice..