Quotes from Chamillionaire

There are musicians who wait all their lives for this award while for me it came with my first album. People have started acknowledging my work because of the Grammy.

There are a lot of people that have great ideas that want to create disruptive companies that change the world but everybody doesn't have the skills to be able to do that.

I used to try to get revenge on the critics, but now I realize I've already won, and it doesn't matter what people say.

Slim Thug and Z-Ro can make a record together, and even Flip and T.I. can make a record together, but there's a difference between that and Flip and T.I. holding hands and being friends. When people say they want these records, they mean that they want us all to be friends.

I know that the fans are also very responsible for an artist's success and feel like they deserve to be recognized.

Even if I did work with a big producer, you try not to do the same kind of records as everybody else.

Music's designed to be timeless.

Timing is everything for me, especially.

Hotels are nice and everything, but there's no place like home.

Rap got me out of the hood. Rap got me out of Houston and helped me to see the world.

Snoop Dogg has this larger than life image which is so not true because when you meet him in person he's so humble, loves his kids and enjoys his life.

If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.

Life is too short to be arguing over some little things.

These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady

Just like so many other people out there, I don't want to sit on the sidelines, I want to do the most that I can to help.

I just want to innovate.

I trust my gut instinct, and go against the grain and it works.

People can see it when you're honest and sincere.

I was one of the first rappers to have his own forum. Then 50 Cent made 'Thisis50.com,' and everyone made sites just like it.

If you don't have respect for immigrants, or you don't have respect for minorities, or you don't have respect for women, it's gonna be very difficult for you to understand why the other side needs to be treated fairly.

Everybody's out there trying to be somebody else. Even the good guy's trying to be the bad guy, you know? Just be yourself, man. I think that works.

I just think knowledge makes the world go 'round, man. So, if that makes me a geek, then cool.

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.