I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Mine is better than ours.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Observe all men, thyself most.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I never hold a grudge.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

I am who I am today because of my mother.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

I’m a free spirit.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

My life is my message.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Once you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

I got my own back.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them – they are individual and stylish.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.