Quotes from Cam'ron

Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.

You always gotta take advantage when you can spend time with your kids.

I don't care if I am doing music: my son comes with me every weekend. If I'm on the West Coast, he'll come fly and be with me. If I'm on the East Coast, I get my son every weekend. It doesn't matter where I'm at - show, no show, whatever. Break or no break. I have my son every summer and every weekend while he's in school.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

I just think that rap takes way more slack than the video games and the movies. We don't make guns. Smith and Wesson makes guns. Like, white people make guns and bullets, and all we're doing is rhyming and putting words together.

I work with any producer that brings me a hot beat, but you don't always know if it's a sample.

Basically, I want to prove to everybody that I can write music - good music.

When you constantly working, working, you don't really get to appreciate the fans and people loving your stuff.

To me, any publicity is good publicity.

I roll with the punches.

I listen to 'Purple Haze' a lot. If I'm in the gym, I listen to that album the whole way through sometimes.

They treat my stuff like wine. It just gets better with time.

Maybe I beef with people, but it was never random. Anybody you name, I could give you the reason why it happened or whatever led to the beef.

If you just freestyle, everybody is gonna go, 'Freestyle.'

If you don't stay up with technology, you're gonna fall out of the loop and not make any money.

Jay Z and Nas is probably my favorite rap beef because Nas was kinda quiet for a while.

I didn't want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda - God bless the dead - influenced me to do that.

I'm the gorgeous gangster.

I always grow, every album.

You want to stay grounded, but you need to keep the music growing.

People are foolish if they think I'm going to lose my head and give up anything to anyone just because someone threatens me.

You can't be going through life expecting everything. You gotta have discipline.

What people have to realize is this: You have rappers who are popular or whatever for the time being, but that don't mean you necessarily want to dress like them. You may have a guy who sells five million records; do you want to dress like him? When you see me, you think you may want to dress like that guy because that guy is fly.