Ludacris's Quotes

The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.

I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera - and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character.

I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.

I'm trying to be number one all the way around. It's not just the South, it's not just the East, it's not the West, I'm going for across the world, you know what I'm saying? This is where I'm coming from.

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.

Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of.

My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

I feel like we need more aggression today.

I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it's by surprise.

I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

I made my first complete song when I was 9.