Equally as therapeutic was the fact that disaster did not come.

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.

This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins.

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.

If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do you do if your greatest fear is of being afraid?

I felt so skinless at times! Things hit me so hard!

Trial and error open the portal to perfection.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.

I was pretty subdued [as a kid ] because I didn't want to get spanked, and I didn't want to go to Hell.

[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

Hey!" I screamed, waving the jacket, running to one side of the monster. "Hey, stupid! Ground beef!

Right now if you ask me Carmelo Anthony is GONE. He's going to L.A. to play w/Kobe Bryant.

I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.

Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.