50 Cent

I’m not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain’t me.

A lot of kids join the army to get a college education. That’s why they do it, and they get sent into these horrible situations.

(on his feuds with many of his fellow rappers) If they keep comin’ at me, I’ll just keep responding back until they don’t exist anymore. I got the time and energy to ruin what is left of their careers, if they want to do that.

I don’t think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I’m from the bottom I think they look at me and go ‘well, if he made it, I can make it’

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

What cha saying boy, you think Im playing boy, watch ya mouth girl, its a mans world.

If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don’t like you.

Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don’t look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.

I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go onstage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience, and I like to feel in most cases like I’m a big guy with long rubber arms that I can reach around my audience and swing and sway with them – move them with me. And many nights, I can’t. Many nights I can. But you do like a good manager with a baseball team. You keep pulling pitchers, you keep trying.

Entertainment isn’t just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it’s great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

I didn’t get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it.

I have so much to talk about. I have so much to share. There are so many different emotions going on inside of me right now.

If I have to listen to one more grey faced man with a $2 hair cut explain to me what rape is, I’m going to lose my mind.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

I would say that one of your greatest accomplishments, Amy Poehler, is that you have so successfully used your art and comedy as a source of positivity in the world, by creating Smart Girls [an online community for girls, encouraging them to be their authentic selves], by making [Leslie in] Parks and Rec not only a positive feminist character but creating a good-hearted worldview within that program.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?

News is now one of the three things that we get from social media, the other two being our entire sense of self-worth and pictures of shaved alpacas.

[On being told that he should be an agent with him having no acting ‘gifts’. And saying that you need to know absolutely nothing to be an agent.] I thought that’s the job for me.

All the boys did real good for their first time out. You couldn’t ask for any better. We’ve got a few bugs to work out, but that’s what this was for. We’re going to keep practicing and get better.