Quotes from Cam'ron

Just growing up in Harlem, it didn't matter what you had to do to get fresh - you would do it.

I went to Manhattan Center High School.

To be honest, the real money is in merchandising and performances.

To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active.

I just do hip-hop because I love to do it.

You got people that come in, one album, two albums, and they're gone. A lot of people couldn't take the break I took and come back into the game, and people be checking for them.

They've got a great tool in the Internet. If you've really got a good movement, you can see who likes you.

The love in the Midwest is way different from New York - people accepted me like one of their own, and they showed me a bunch of love, so I did a big song dedicated to them.

I'm a fashion icon.

I'm a caterer, interior decorator - a lot of hobbies people don't know I do.

I'm not gonna sit back and listen to somebody who listens to 3LW all day.

Seeing Jay Z's just a great example of somebody who comes from a ghetto to rise to where he's at. I think... he done a great job.

I grew up in New York City: Harlem, New York. I played ball for probably two of the biggest amateur basketball organizations in the city.

There is nothing that will be bigger than a Michael Jordan tribute.

There was a time when only athletes had sneakers. Entertainers having sneakers, on any level, is a blessing.

It just feels good when I give people sneakers.

Music is always gonna change; it's just a matter of keeping up with the times.

Go to school and get your education and follow your dreams.

It doesn't matter where I'm at - if I'm somewhere sitting still for more than an hour, rhymes start popping in my head... It's just kinda instilled in me.

I love having my son in my life. That's why it's more fathers in the hip-hop community, because they probably went through a fatherless childhood like I did.

I don't mess with Mase no more, because me, personally, I just go by a different standard than people.

The movies that I've done in the past, everybody's been like, 'Cam always gets away in a movie playing Cam.' So, like, I'm trying to step outside the box a little bit just to show my range in acting.

I'm happy to see somebody from the urban community that could go out and make a half-a-billion dollars.

If you rocking Steve Madden, we won't go anywhere.