Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place

Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit." (Guardian interview 2006)

Desires are only a problem when the means to fulfill them are not available.

Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at some level, we all do need something like it.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.