Quotes from Curtis Jackson

If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you're going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes.

In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like 'Novacane.'

When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.

Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.

Being broke is against my religion.

I have a romantic side. I do things.

I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.

I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

Death gotta be easy cause life is hard

I like to sort through music and see whatever pops out to me or inspires me. If I could have a production team going and kind of mix records with me, that would be cool; to take the records and have them sound the way I want them to sound. But I'd rather sort though music to find them things.

I'm a track star running through life, chasing my dream.

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.

Death must be easy cuz life is hard

Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

It's Fifty, not Fiddy.

Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?

Success is my drug of choice.

For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive.

I wanted to do something as an extension of my passion for music. My aim for the STREET by 50 On-Ear Wired Headphone range is to present music as it's meant to be heard, in studio-mastered sound.

A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power's an aphrodisiac.

When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.