Fabolous

“When you get the light shined on you, it's always interesting to see how people do in that light. The light shines on you, the spotlight's on you, so what are you going to do?”

“I had a certain level of patience, but sometimes weathering the storm is a patient process. Every storm don't pass fast. Every storm, it can be passing, but it can be getting stronger and stronger or it could be coming down hard.”

“In music, if somebody makes a good song, you want to be in that category and make the good songs too. It may not even be a competition thing, it's just a thing to keep your skills up type of thing.”

“As I continue my artistry, I want to touch places that I haven't gone and do certain music that I haven't done over and over again.”

“I think growth is a big part of everything, it think even growth for Brooklyn, growth for Downtown Brooklyn is good.”

“I won't change myself and compromise myself, but I will make my music to be in the conversation with everyone else's.”

“Me and Chainz hang out, we talk. I go to Atlanta, I go to Chainz's restaurant. Chainz came to my dinner. Chainz is my guy.”

“Basketball has a culture to it, it has a swagger to it.”

“Whether I've been here three years or 10 years, my agenda is still in the same place as it was when I first came in: it's to continue to make good music, and raise the bar to grow and evolve as a person, as an artist, as everything; just to be a better me.”

“I wouldn't do a 'For The Love of Fabulous' kind of show at all.”

“Michael Jordan broke the mold of the Magic Johnson/Larry Bird era - he came in and he had a gold chain, he wore longer shorts and his sneakers were a different style.”

“That's the kind of lane that I try to keep my fashion usually in - not too uppity, not too out of the norm, but little touches that make it special.”

“Even before I became an artist myself, I always cared about my presentation.”

“I go from streetwear to high-end fashion, to being formal and wearing suits.”

“Part of the passion for me was hearing great music from the very start of it, now I'm one of the people who can give that passion back to somebody.”

“If I was Bill Gates, I would double Bill Gates, you know what I mean? That's the mindstate you should keep in any profession, just keep striking iron and trying to get bigger and better.”

“I remember one time 50 was offering me different things to come and be apart of G-Unit. I didn't really do it because it was kind of at the time where they were signing Mobb Deep, Ma$e and M.O.P. I didn't know if I wanted to be up under something.”

“I look at where I've come from and realize that I'm lucky to make it out. I was a mischievous kid and I understand the whole reasoning of youth today because I didn't have much to do in the afternoon after school.”

“I like comfortable settings. Just somewhere where you can sit and chill and you got your friends and you got drinks and food.”

“Me and Drake, we just met each other in passing on the road. We kicked it a few times. We kept ending up in the same circles. Eventually we figured out we wanted to work.”