The most VALUABLE advice I can give is PLAN for your success. WRITE down your ideal goal, CREATING checkpoints for yourself along the way that align with the end goal. Set up rewards for achieving both LITTLE victories and big ones.

I WRITE MUSIC to both the SITUATIONS and the LYRICS in PLAYS.

By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been RUNNING from writing it for a long time. When the EVENTS in the book were happening, I KNEW I'd probably write about them one day. I didn't want to. I'd studied fiction, and I was COMMITTED to establishing myself as a fiction WRITER first.

Great NATIONS write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the BOOK of their deeds, the book of their WORDS and the book of their ART.

One of the FIRST lessons he or she learns is that in BASEBALL anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just TWO days ago as I write this, SOMETHING happened that had never happened in baseball before.

I WOULD WRITE ads for deodorants or LABELS for catsup bottles if I had to.

Always speak the TRUTH, THINK before you speak, and WRITE it down AFTERWARDS.

The PEN is MIGHTIER than the SWORD, and considerably EASIER to WRITE with.

You MAY write me down in HISTORY with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very DIRT, but still, like DUST, I'll rise.

I make HIP-HOP, but use Doom as a CHARACTER to convey stories that a normal dude can't. You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn't MEAN the WRITER himself is crazy.