I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

I feel like we need more aggression today.

I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it's by surprise.

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera - and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character.

I used to be a video game freak, but I've kind of like eased back.

I'm one of those people that just likes to be comfortable.

I'm ridiculous, I'm ludicrous.

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.

I've never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident.

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.

No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.

Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of.

A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding whats going on having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did or this is what somebody did to you.

Its a crooked system but gin straight take the pain away.

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.

I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.