I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.