"Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is like a prison. You can have a life sentence in prison and it's the same in cities."

“I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.”

“The best pay off in the world is when someone comes up to you and says, 'your music has helped me with some pretty rough times through life. I don't know if I would still be here if it was for your music whether it be country music or heavy metal has done for me.' That's ultimately the biggest payoff for me. I hear it from young kids to military guys and military women to older folks.”

“It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.”

“Life is actually a series of tests. It's a social test, a happiness test, a business success test. You'd like to get A's in all of them.”

“I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.”

“Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.”

“I'm like a little kid that has a basketball and don't want nobody else to play with it. "It's mine, it's mine, and it's mine!" When it comes to sneakers.”

Source : "Fat Joe Talks Pun's Wife, Writing Hit Songs & Sneaker Shopping". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. May 5, 2009.

“I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.”