Lil Wayne Quotes
Hip-hop artist
I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.
I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.
Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.
I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.
Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.
Life is a lot like skateboarding.
I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.
I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.
The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.
Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.
I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me.
I don't take nothin' from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I'm gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can't do that, then I'll just die.
I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'
I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.
I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.
I don't like to stop. I believe you stop when you die.
Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.
A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.
I believe in God and his son, Jesus.
I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.
You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.
I don't have to prove anything.
You're either living or you're dead.
I'm kinda mad that I had to wait 28 years to jump on a skateboard.
I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.
Things I say have value and I would love for you to value them, however you get it.
One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.
I go wherever my creativity takes me.
Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.
I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more.
My aim is just to make good music every single time.
I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.
Where I come from, the block become your daddy.
As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.
I like being misunderstood.
I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping.
The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.
I don't think I've ever googled myself.
We're here to live. We're here to do, we're here to be.
Nothing scares me but God.
I don't look for signs. But when things happen, I say, 'OK, something must be right.' Or 'OK, something must be wrong.'
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.
They say I'm the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me.
Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.
I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city.
I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.
I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.
I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.
I don't think nothing. I just do my work.
I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.
I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?
I watch ESPN all day long.
I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.
If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.
I just feel out of this world sometimes.
Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.
Let me do me.
Miami has embraced me and I love them for that.
I want to make sure my family's straight.
I want to be a skater.
I do not consider myself a literal genius.
I'm always creative.
I love to work.