Young Jeezy

You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.

I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.

Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

It's not the average people that come to my show.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.

People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

I'm a motivational speaker.

As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.