"You gotta go do research on the way they treat like fucking chickens, man. Those chickens go through fucking torture before they’re processed and shit, have all sorts of fucking steroids injected in them and everything."

"[Asked who inspired him to be a vegetarian] I used to sell books, when I was about 18 …. We were selling books, and right next to us was an old man. I mean, he had to be about 80 years old, and he was a nutritionist, but he was a holistic nutritionist, and he was talking to us about how you shouldn’t really eat animals and things of that nature … and he pulled up his shirt and the man had the abs of a 15-year-old. He says to us, “Touch ’em. Punch me,”—whatever—and he’s like, “How old do you think I am?” And we thought he was about 50 years old, and he’s like, “I’m 86 years old.” … We looked at each other, me and my friends, and we were, like, when we’re 86, we want to be like that …. So that’s what started it."

"I’ll do anything that’s going to save animals. Anytime I can encourage people to think twice before [doing] anything to animals … that’s a good thing."

"I hope no one thinks we really sniff glue. I stopped when I was eight."

"I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock."

"Don't call it a comeback I've been here for years."

"Apart from Dr. Dre’s countless collaborative works, his own records throughout the ‘90s solidified him as one of the rap genre’s single most important and influential artists."

"You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge."

"It's been so long that I haven't seen your face I try to be strong."

"When I see you I run out of words to say I wouldn't leave you, Cause you're that type of girl to make me stay."

"Yo, this one here, goes out to all my players out there man, you know."

"Nobody wants to see us together, but it don't matter. No, because I got you babe."

"As life goes on I'm starting to learn more and more about responsibility."

"Girl, you can tell everybody Yeah, you can tell everybody Go ahead and tell everybody Reveal the man, I'm the man, I'm the man Yes, I am, yes, I am, yes, I am Reveal the man, I'm the man, I'm the man"

"I believe every lie that I ever told Paid for every heart that I ever stoll I paid my cause and I didn't fold Well, it ain't that hard when you got soul (This is my world) Somewhere I heard that life is a test I been though the worst but still I give my best yeah"

"You could be the king, but watch the queen conquer."

"Women need to have a perspective. If we’re out here saying that we’re so confident, and we’re so this and so that, but we don’t even trust ourselves to write down our own thoughts and spit it on a beat? It just doesn’t add up."

"Dear first borns, especially daughters. God is your strength. That is all."

"Oh my gosh, look at her butt Oh my gosh, look at her butt Oh my gosh, look at her butt (Look at her butt) Look at, look at, look at Look, at her butt."

"Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up."

"You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition."

"It's a great feeling to not box yourself into anyone’s limitations or ideas or judgments."

"Little girls can aspire to be anything, and that’s all I want people to see. Whether you follow Nicki Minaj's blueprint or not, just don’t be afraid to experiment and don’t allow people to knock your hustle just ’cause it ain’t something that you’re used to seeing. ... I like that I'm there because it gives little girls in Southside Jamaica, Queens, or South Africa or Brazil a moment to say, ‘Oh wait, I can be a female rapper!’ Yes, you really can."

"I want to be a balanced artist ... this is all years of me learning me and my style, and deciding to do something different that would get everyone's attention."

"I love that people never know what Nicki they are going to get on a particular song. I like bringing out a different side."

"She got a big booty; so I call her: Big Booty"

"I am smoking on that gas, life should be on Cinemax, movie, bought my boo bigger tits and a bigger ass"

"And all I get is cheese, like I'm taking Pictures"

"Don't make me Floyd Mayweather Jr. yo ass like I was one Hundred forty-seven pounds one hundred AK-47 rounds"

"Pets are family and they should be treated as such. I think the most important thing people should know [is to treat] your dog how you’d like to be treated. Your dog is going to love you as much as you love [him or her]."

"I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto"

"Sittin up on 24's ridin with them big guns my 50 caliber shoot so long I call that bitch my Vince Young"

"It gone take my momma comin back from the grave to make me love somthin."

"I let my temper get the best of me and I go off, for no reason, Tis is the beginning of kicking in yo door season."

"Imma gangsta and I spit nothin' but gangsta shit, thats comin from a five-duece hoover gangsta crip"

"I could put you in a log cabin, in Wiskansin"

"Drop some kush in a ciggarillo and then give it a twist."

"If I see a jacker comin' my way, I load my AK, Don't think I won't spray, it'll be yo last day."

"Every morning I start my day off wrong, Firin up kush before I even get my clothes on, Load my glock before I even wash my face."

"I wake up early in the evenin round five thirty or six my Nextel beepin from all the calls I missed."

"It's five O'Clock in the morning and I want ya and ya want me, Don't ya?"

"When I'm rollin in my ride It be a look on my face so cold, Starin at yo ass so hard I can see straight through to yo soul."

"The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper"

"Cruisin' down the street in my six-fo' jockin' da bitches slappin da hoes."

"Cause the boyz in da hood are always hard, Keep fuckin with us and we'll pull yo' card knowin nothin in life but to be legit don't quote me boy cause I said shit."

"Perched up high on a rooftop, like a bird I'm having evil thoughts, A black hood covers my face as death flows through my mind at its own pace."

"Ridin' up in them GTO's and 4-4-2's, Grand Prix's, S.S's, causes we so so cool"

"Ridin' Regals all them Lacs, Benz, Bells, Verts, Skylarks, Motorcycles, ATV's with the works"

"Watch out for the medallions, my diamonds is reckless, feels like a midget is hangin' from my necklace."

"Move Bitch!"