“College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that sc...” — J. Cole Quote

“College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.”

“One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.”

“My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.”

“I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.”

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

“Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.”

“I was never an A student. I never really liked going to school like many of my friends. There were just too many students and too competitive. We were sort of forced into studying to go to college. It was like if we didn't go to college, society looked at us as failures. We didn't know what to do with the situation.”

“I worked my way through college by throwing passes for the University of Kentucky.”

“It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.”

“I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.”

“I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.”

“What is the purpose of the electoral college? It has a few purposes. One, it's to restrain pure democracy. Very good, very important, that's a wonderful thing.”