MMG for life.

I've been fortunate enough to experience financial success on a large scale through both my music career and my many business ventures. With this type of financial success comes financial responsibility.

I've got a record titled 'Idols Become Rivals,' and it's basically me writing a letter to someone in the game that I looked up to damn near the most, and I hate what things have come to.

When you face obstacles or go through different phases, I always relied on my music. I depend on my music, my teammates. So at the end of the day, having incredible music, for me, would keep me in the space I want to be as an artist.

When you listen to records like 'Foreclosure,' that's like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that's running across my mind and things that have been bothering me.

I'm not trying to make a particular weight. I'm just working out and doing what's best for Rozay.

When I was coming up in Miami, the music in the city at the time sounded completely different. I loved it, but it just wasn't the type of music I wanted to make. I wanted my wordplay to be more sophisticated. I wanted the sound to be more lush. I wanted my music to sound like who I was and aspired to be - boss.

There's always money to get.

Puff Daddy is a great party thrower. He goes down in the history books.

I just wanted to write about stuff that was happening in real life, and that's not just love songs about your girlfriend.

Living someplace like L.A. seemed awful to me.

If you don't have a great chorus, write a good bridge first. I often do that and find I write good bridges.

The way I look at it, I'm a songwriter that just happens to play guitar.

I'm kind of a goony guy, a dweeb or a geek.

I love guitars, and guitars love me, but sometimes they need new homes where they can live to rock another day.

I never wanted to be Keith Richards or Jimmy Page.

I was the Richard Gere non-lookalike in Illinois.

I took one guitar lesson, and they wanted me to play 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' or 'Michael Row the Boat Ashore,' and that was the last guitar lesson that I ever took, so I taught myself what I wanted to know.

Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, 'Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this weird stuff... what is this?' It was a new kind of music.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

In 1977, I had Paul Rivera hotrod six Fender Deluxes for me. At that time, a lot of studio guys in L.A. were using those - not so much live guys but studio guys. They had terrific tone and great technique, and I was like, 'Well, I like having terrific tone even though I don't have any technique.'

Cheap Trick have always prided ourselves on being groundbreaking.

I like 'Salty Dog' by Procol Harum.

People used to trade their guitars to get new ones; I never traded anything.