The amount of negativity I hear on a daily basis is unbelievable. But that's the kind of stuff you have to tune out, focus, stick with your vision and keep plugging every day.

I love doing things that people say can't be done.

Nothing comes easy. Success doesn't just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day.

Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don't have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day.

I grew up in a lot of different places. I always saw the bigger picture. I was around rich kids with country houses and private jets. No disrespect to those people, but I never thought they were super geniuses. I couldn't see how I wasn't going to have those things, too.

I become friendly with people I work with.

I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.

A 'Roc-A-Fella purist' is me.

Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella were two equal entities under the Def Island umbrellas.

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.

I love music, but the people in the music don't wanna work.

If I can't do things to the fullest, I don't want to do it.

I'm knee-deep into fashion; I'm knee-deep into movies.

Big shout out to Nas: if you want to scream my name out again and put my name in your rhyme, I think it's funny. Let's make some money from it. Just don't take it so serious, man.

In urban culture, Larry Davis is something of a legend.

A diabetic always wants to help another diabetic.

Every little thing I've done as an adult and as a young adult, I've done diabetic.

I'm not a complainer.

You do something when you're 20, and you're still paying for it when you're 40.

It's incomprehensible for me to hear another dude talk about another's dude's pockets and have that matter and argue about that.

First of all, how could I be broke, and I got all these companies?

My favorite record was the one I produced with Clark Kent.

It's very rare that a person, especially in his twenties and thirties, can do more than one business and do it well.

I don't like to be considered a 'hip-hop mogul.' I don't know what that means.