I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.

I been doing music my whole life.

Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.

There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

Biography is a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.

Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole to feel safe to be healed to join together with someone heart and soul.

There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.

I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

I'd rather get a massage and get the problem rubbed out than taking a pill and just feel drugged out.

Caterpillar sheds its skin to find a butterfly within.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

There's nothing worse than looking as if you've tried too hard or preened to within an inch of your life. If I'm wearing a strong item like a really beautiful dress, then I'll play down my shoes and accessories and make my hair really natural.

Shoot for a total of no more than 80 grams of carbs in your daily diet. This means favoring vegetables that grow above ground like kale, broccoli, spinach, and cauliflower as opposed to those that store carbohydrate in the form of starch like potatoes and beets.

I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So I do a lot of theatre, but really, as with most actors, I just love going from one to another. It's stimulating, it's diverting, it's a different way of life, and you know, I dearly like a good mix.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

Love, at most know, follows its own timeline. Disregarding our intentions or well rehearsed plans.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

No matter what you face, don't forget if you're positive, positivity will find you and embrace you.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel.

I went to New York to train as a chef, and I had the good or bad fortune, depending on how you describe it, of being right there during 9/11. It was one of the best and the worst experiences.