At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing, ”George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

You can't eat your friends and have them too

Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.

I think these things social networks are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.

Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the protagonist in the songs.

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.