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

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

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.

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.