A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Being free is a state of mind.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

If you can't see His way past the tears, trust His heart.

I personally think Miles Davis is a lot funnier than me. And he's working more.

I create for each individual woman to reflect her definite sense of personal style and unique beauty

the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre

If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

I think the whole of music comes down to one's personality. It's not about the notes or how you press the keys; it's where you are in your evolution of consciousness.

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

Everything that you want to create is already there. Your job is to connect yourself to it.

…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith