A lot of the stuff that my father told me not to do, I did it anyway and I ended up learning the hard way.

I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?

I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel.

Cruise the diamond district with my biscuit.

Take a journey to the realm of the truth.

I'm human, you're human. So they said, but inside we're all animals.

These devils find a way to get at'cha. All it takes is some green and your face on the screen.

The party don't stop, til the casket drop.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

There are some people who still don't understand. But I know by the end of my fulfillment they will.

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

There's a lot of things that need to change, a lot of different issues that need to be addressed.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

I've discovered that you can't change people. They can change themselves.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.