Curtis Jackson quotes:

My new music video, 'My Life' featuring Eminem and Adam Levine, the only person in the actual video who you can physically make out besides myself and Adam Levine is Andre Dirrell.

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.

I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.

You have to challenge yourself and your muscles. When you are really regimented, it's the same over and over and you start to get comfortable. Switching up the style of training works your muscles differently.

I wanted to do something as an extension of my passion for music. My aim for the STREET by 50 On-Ear Wired Headphone range is to present music as it's meant to be heard, in studio-mastered sound.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

If you're familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he's gonna take, come the end of the year, is lifestyle. Only thing you can do is spend some of it.

STREET by 50 is all about giving our fans the finest music experience we possibly can. The response to the limited edition colors so far speaks for itself - the fans want the opportunity to match their headphones to their personal style, and we definitely want to make sure to give them what they want.

My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.

My work out routine is always changing. It should never stay the same for long periods of time.

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.

I'll have long, straight hair, like down to my back, when I go to Heaven. And I'm not even going to work out, but I'll be in shape. It's a whole new program up there.

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time.

Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

Hip-hop - it's the safari: it allows people who aren't under those circumstances to come closer to inner-city life, to explore it without actually being in danger. It's something kids in middle America indulge in to be rebellious.

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.

A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power's an aphrodisiac.

The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They're able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.

Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

I like to sort through music and see whatever pops out to me or inspires me. If I could have a production team going and kind of mix records with me, that would be cool; to take the records and have them sound the way I want them to sound. But I'd rather sort though music to find them things.

A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power`s an aphrodisiac.

People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.

Every day, families in Africa go without food and water, never knowing when their next meal might be; but we can change that if we all work together. In order to make a difference, every purchase of my new energy shot, Street King, will provide a meal for a child in need.

My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel, on-demand is the same. I watch the TV in another language, trying to figure out what they're saying.

When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. If you're listening to a record and it's really hot, then you'll be looking for something that feels like that, or that has a version of it.

Death must be easy cuz life is hard

I'll break your face, have your ass mumbling to the jay, you going against me dawg you makin a mistake. I'll split your wig and leave you open like a mickeal jackson jacket with all them zippers.

What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things."

I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.

I love you like a fat kid love cake.

Now I am in to fat chains, sex and techs, fly new chicks, new kicks, I love you like a fat kid love cake.

God's the seamtress that tailor-fitted my pain yo I got scriptures in my brain I can spit at yo dane straight the good book, look, niggas is shook 50 fear no man, warrior swing swords like conana

My past is my shadow, it follows me everywhere I go. Well, all those things come from when I had no other choice. They put my back against the wall. I do what I gotta do.

Get rich or die tryin'.

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I'll break yo face.

I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it.

I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN.

I get photobombed by the hottest people in the world.

I'm really sensitive. And they don't understand that, because my most comfortable feeling is anger. So I'll get angry if you said something to hurt my feelings or you're making me uncomfortable, I'll get angry, and be ready to do something about it.

I feel like you can will yourself into a good space. Things that are meant to happen, will. If you believe in yourself enough, you can help yourself learn. You can inspire yourself in ways to discipline yourself to a point where you CAN become good enough.

My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.

For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive.

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

My grandma pregnant again trying to talk her out of keeping it

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.

I've been patiently waiting to blow!

I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that

I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading, because I know where I've been.

I have less compassion than the average human.

What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing.

When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.

Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.

If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back?

Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.

Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He's safe. There's points when you're acquiring financing, you make adjustments. He's made those adjustments. It's his choice. For me, it's not a necessity.

Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.

Eating well was something I learned as I started to be successful and had to travel and perform concerts, which are an intense cardio workout.

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.

I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like 'Novacane.'

I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.

The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

Since I did the SK Project and I partner with the United Nations World Food Program, I got a lot of different feedback from people online. Through social networks and through the Twitter. I read the comments and see 'em saying, 'People hungry here, Fif.'

Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life.

You either pray or worry. Don't do both.

Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain. Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard; It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred.

its not about the dog in the fight, its about the fight in the dog!

When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose - you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

I don't have a problem removing people from around me. They could be around for a long time, and I could get comfortable or used to them, and then I can just get rid of them.

Success is my drug of choice.

Show No Love , Cus Love Can Get U killed

Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don't sleep. I've got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.

Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.

I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.

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

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.

Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change

Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

They don't understand the process I went through and how much I had to believe in myself...

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

Being broke is against my religion.

If I'm focused while I'm strokin I could change how you walk

If you a man and your over 25 and you don't eat pu**y just kill your self damn it. The world will be a better place. Lol,

I love funny women, and just being around them talking is fine with me. I love an interesting mind.

Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

I've got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.

At first, my love was just to be in the studio and make the music and enjoy it when I hear it played back, but then the biggest thing for me was to see the response of the people. When you go out and see the energy in the crowd, it's incredible.

The less you fear, the more power you will have.

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.

I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.

I think everyone should be happy. I think a fool is going to go against same sex marriage at this point. Look how long it took him [Obama] to say he was for same sex marriages. You understand? I'm up for it. If everyone else is for it, then hey, to each his own. I don't have personal feelings towards it because I'm not involved in that lifestyle. I want people to be happy. It makes for everything to be better

I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.

I never allowed my fear to limit me.

If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you're going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.

If you start hustling then don't pay a person what they deserve, pay them what they accept. That's good business. Even if you're not hustlin' pay them what they accept because you can capitalize off of people.

Even the toughest guys are afraid to be anything outside of the toughest guys.

Anybody who says that money don't change you - they only say that because they don't make enough.

I'm a track star running through life, chasing my dream.

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

If you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air.

I have a romantic side.

True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.

When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?

Everyone else is just mad cause i came from the bottom with out them