Elliott: "If you got talent, you just have to do you."

Elliott: "Things happen in your life, and then you can write something else instead of the same three topics - like, how many times can we write about the clubs?"

Elliott: "I want to be cutting-edge."

Elliott: "The fun part of being an entertainer is that you call up Six Flags, and you say, 'I'm coming,' and you get to get on all the rides before everyone. I hate standing in line."

Elliott: "Music should be your escape."

Elliott: "I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got."

Elliott: "My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain."

Elliott: "I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken."

Elliott: "You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time."

Elliott: "I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you."

Elliott: "The person I eventually find will have to like me and my style."

Elliott: "When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it."

Elliott: "I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine."