Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Half the hoes hate, half them love me. The ones that hate me only hate me cuz they ain't [expletive] me.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

One of the greatest keys to happiness is learning how to accept reality while stretching forth to create a new one.

You can never deplete your love by giving it away. Why not give yourself to love?

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet.

University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

You get better at working by working. And if you don't work, you're not getting better.