“Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer si...” — J. Cole Quote

“Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.”

“No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.”

“I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.”

“I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I'm trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.”

“I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.”

“My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.”

“I hate losing. I hate getting beat. I'm not used to it.”

“Iowa is especially critical for underdog and cash-strapped campaigns, because the caucus system relies on grassroots organizing, enabling candidates with time for retail politicking to beat better-funded rivals. So underdogs usually seize on the state.”

“Ultimately if I want to be in that World Cup squad then I need to prove that I can do it against the top teams because that's who we need to beat if we want to be world champions.”

“There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.”

“That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.”

“If I don't believe I can beat someone, I don't do that fight.”