Don't ever allow your heart to become desperate for love

Love is more potent than wine

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

On the road, it's constant sensory overload, and it's easy to lose track of days and time and to get caught up in the constant giving of yourself.

Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don't survive, you don't get to fight the next battle.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

Politics is a contact sport.

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

It does feel like sometimes that I'm the outcast. Hip-hop doesn't want to mess with me because I'm Christian and Christian music doesn't want to mess with me because I'm hip-hop.