Everything I do has to come from a sense of fun and joy.

I want to inspire people to become their higher selves, their best selves.

We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.

I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown.

I've quit drugs and drinking and been into healthy stuff like yoga.

I wanted to make some music with deeper meaning mixed with the fun and cool stuff I've been doing for so long.

I don't like being preachy. I think using fun and humor is an excellent way to make people think.

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes it's really challenging to get anything good out of myself.

I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.

Only with a leafcan I talk of the forest,

For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.

You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

I do not believe this darkness will endure.

I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?

The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.