Lil Tjay Quotes

When I got to jail, it was a blessing in disguise because it made me reevaluate and check who I am as a person.

I was in jail a couple of times, and I was probably heading back there for a long time. But martial arts saved my life and some of the choices I made with it.

When a person gets to the age of 35 and you go to jail, it either makes you or breaks you. It made me identify what I wanted.

Going to prison actually helped save my life, I believe.

I was heading in a self destructive direction. My priority wasn't together, wasn't in order. So me getting locked up was actually a blessing for me. It helped for me to see the light. Once you get the rug snatched from under you - I had my career and family snatched from me, and I was forced to just sit there in that box for three years and think about what I did and how selfish I was, it made me really see things with new eyes, like, hold up, why was I doing that? What the hell was I thinking about? I gotta change. Something's got to give. I can't ever come back in this place again.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and I look back and give thanks for how it changed me and the truth I found.'

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

I feel like if I wasn't to go to jail, I probably wouldn't be the person I am - I wouldn't.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what's right?' I just made a decision. I said, 'It's time to grow up. It's time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.' I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.

'Suddenly Susan' is my life.

I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

When I was a kid, there were some people around me who were a bad influence. When I met my girlfriend Sofia, who is now my wife, I think it all changed. She was very important for me, because she steered me back on to the path I wanted to be on.

One of the things I said was that I had been in great hopes that I would become a better person as a result of confronting my own mortality, but it actually never happened. I didn't become a better person.

I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

My faith was eventually what helped me face myself, tell the truth about everything I had done, face criticism, cope with guilt, pain, and grow from all of it.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.