Quotes from Joe Budden

I will alway support anybody being vocal about their mental illness, how they're dealing with it, and how it affects them. And I'll always support people waking up and paying attention to that.

I don't wanna join the Hair Club For Men or anything.

Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love.

If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect.

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

Actually, after 'All Love Lost' I was so drained creatively that I didn't have any clue where I wanted to go. So I just started from scratch.

Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music.

You take music out of life and love. I don't want to be on a planet without music.

Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one

My mom's mission my entire teenage years was just to save my life.

Joe Budden TV is life through the eyes of Joe Budden. You've gotta go check it out - it's pretty fun.

Sometimes you gotta stand by your failures to recognize your success

That's the part I kept trying to say on Queen Radio: I don't have to believe you because you're saying it. I'm not saying you're a liar, I learned that long ago too. There's a big difference between you're a liar and I don't believe you.

Music is my therapy.

Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.

Early on, it was real tough for me to stick to my guns and say 'I'm retired, I'm not rapping, don't ask me for nothing.' But I had to do that because I love rapping and I love music, so if I don't do that, you can't be halfway in it and halfway out.

I was just rapping as a pastime and I became good at it. So much so that by the time my Def Jam contract was in front of me, I didn't have a rap name.

Yeah, well I've had a record deal for a long time so I'm kinda used to the cameras and the people, I'm used to dealing with peoples' opinions.

Remember the Titans' is one of my favorites, not so much because of the actual record, but because there's so many different backstories.

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.

Take away what we love, wed all be Joe Paterno.

There's no one aspect of my life that is more hidden than others. I mean, everything is pretty much an open book in every regard: relationships, personal, business, music, family, problems, demons, everything is well documented.