J. Cole
J. Cole

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

J. Cole
J. Cole

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

J. Cole
J. Cole

I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.

J. Cole
J. Cole

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

J. Cole
J. Cole

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

J. Cole
J. Cole

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

J. Cole
J. Cole

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

J. Cole
J. Cole

College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

J. Cole
J. Cole

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

J. Cole
J. Cole

I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

J. Cole
J. Cole

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

J. Cole
J. Cole

I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

J. Cole
J. Cole

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

J. Cole
J. Cole

Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

J. Cole
J. Cole

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

J. Cole
J. Cole

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

J. Cole
J. Cole

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

J. Cole
J. Cole

I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.

J. Cole
J. Cole

I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I'm trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.

J. Cole
J. Cole

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.