Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.

At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.

When you fight, you put yourself out there, not caring who you hurt or if you'll get hurt.

Intentions always look better on paper than in reality.

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a lot of slack; I'm not going to be cursing up a storm, but when I look at Nas... his first album is one of my favorites. I want to tell stories like that.