Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Being free is a state of mind.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know.

I think I am beginning to learn something about painting.