I don't have to prove anything.

I don't look for signs. But when things happen, I say, 'OK, something must be right.' Or 'OK, something must be wrong.'

I don't think I've ever googled myself.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more.

I'm always creative.

Where I come from, the block become your daddy.

I want to make sure my family's straight.

I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.

I watch ESPN all day long.

I'm kinda mad that I had to wait 28 years to jump on a skateboard.

If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.

Miami has embraced me and I love them for that.

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.

Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.

I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.

I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.

I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

I believe in God and his son, Jesus.

I don't take nothin' from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I'm gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can't do that, then I'll just die.

One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me.

I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

I like being misunderstood.

I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?

I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

I am always successful in my work.

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

Once you take care of people, people respect you.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.

Football has been good to me. Everyone has their destiny, but you have to make use of the opportunities. I have spent 15 years at the top of my game. It makes me happy. I love the game. I love scoring goals. But I have always taken it seriously. It is not what the game gives you, it is what you give it.

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Africa.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be.

The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.

I haven't really forgotten what it's like to be a teenager and how much it sucked.

By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands.

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

I think we all share a view about wanting to make sure we have a healthy river and we're looking forward to the plan and in the lead-up to that we've agreed to speak again.

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.

I've decided to lead in a way that takes people with me. It's the approach that I think will stand not only our party but also our state in good stead.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

Our commitment to defence goes beyond this. It's a long-term commitment to make SA the home for Australian defence. It's a commitment to providing the right infrastructure and the right people.

Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.

South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time.

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.