Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.

I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.

Where's Eminem, when is Em coming out, Em this, Em that, 50 this, 50 that... What about Obie?

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.

Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.

7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

Downloading songs is not good.

I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.

I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

Eminem is more like a friend. And I'm also a fan on Eminem.

But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.

The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.

I am saying pornography hurts anyone who reads it, garbage in, garbage out.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'

You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no.

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.