Assuming less does not make you naive, it makes you a better listener.

Just when you think you have it all figured out, an epiphany arrives at the higher level of one's consciousness.

life weighs heavy upon my shoulders and patience starts wearing thin, it is divine hope and dreams which sustain me, pushing me forth against the wind.

It’s easy to get caught up in where the world is going and lose sight of the direction we were headed.

Wednesday had come and gone in a single breath. As I dreamt of divine love, Picasso, and a vast field of gold, a new dawn had already begun.

She refused to know love again. The thought of another heartbreak was far too much for her to bear.

Carry out your literary dream, no matter how unlikely it may seem...

In art, music, and writing, if it's not of the heart, it means nothing.

Even the shortest love story reminds me of how much I love you.

A person who loves you through your idiosyncrasies, despite the tiny inclusions, is a diamond worth keeping.

Only the broken beyond repair could know my anguish.

Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.

If you don't know what's respect, I think that you will end up like, "It's not a Happy".

To think too much is a disease.

Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.

This album is moments that I haven't done before, like just my voice and drums. What people call a rant - but put it next to just a drumbeat, and it cuts to the level of, like, Run-D.M.C. or KRS-One.

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.

Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.