Ab-Soul Quotes

I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.

We can't be brave without fear.

I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.

Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.

I treat all my projects the same. They're all time capsules of where I am at the time and what I'm thinking about.

I've been watching battle rap since that time period when Cassidy was hot, Murda Mook and Lux first when at it. That was a very pivotal time in hip-hop.

I feel like battle rap is as popular as it's ever been, today. With Total Slaughter it's getting real popular.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

I don't even really understand that concept of someone being 'smart' or someone else being 'smarter.' I think that except for the obvious special cases, we're all equal.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

I've been following battle rap for a long time. Me and Daylyt are real cool. We battled on my album, he's on my album. We did a one round battle on my album and that was just me capturing These Days.

I like to practice being still and I feel like that promotes a lot of positivity.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.

The fastest way to travel is to be there already.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

I'm not extra'd out. I got a cool little vinyl collection.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.

I got plenty. You can have all my light, my shine. I got plenty. All my boys here, we working being creative.

I'm like Donatello. For real. You probably want to come play your joints for me get my condolence.

Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

I'm really focused on These Days and I'm trying to take it as far as I can - I feel like it's a strong body of work. I just want to give it the ame kind of attention I give all my projects.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.

...don’t judge your future based on others’ mistakes.

I got swirling eyes and the capacity to shatter windows with my bare voice. Tod got teleportation and invisibility. The supernatural world is so far from fair.

When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.

True humility means giving joy to others.

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

Me personally, I just wanted to do that to capture These Days.With DAY-lyt.

King Of The Dot is huge; battle rap is huge right now. My first battle that I went to was King Of The Dot - shout out to Lush One.

106 & Park, Freestyle Friday, that was real pivotal. I feel like he has the right to do that, he comes from that era so he has the right to do that.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution.

Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.

My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren’t glitter, well, that only left one other option.

I believe that a parents role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

People always known me for rappin'. So I guess that maybe just hindered me, like "oh well, I mid-as-well go long term with it."