Everything happens for a reason, but they all lessons.

When you down and out don't nobody trust ya, but when you got bread it seems like everybody love ya.

You know why they hate me, cause they love me.

When you don't pray, the devil rides ya when ya sleep

Let me tell you something. I ain't scared of nothing. I came out my mama.

Ain't that a shame how they f-ck up ya name.

Prison is not a place for humans. Period. It's just an animal house.

I just try to stay around the same people, stick around the same group.

People expect more and more every time.

I could be a comedian. I could be a gangster. I could play all of those parts, even for the first time... I'm versatile.

You have to wipe yourself down, to stay clean. If ya' girl clean, and ya' thoughts clean, wipe 'em down. Wipe 'em down man.

Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable

He wonders what it would be like to belong somewhere and never doubt it.

The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.

The work that I do, I am grateful to do and honored and privileged to do, but I do it for my family and, if you don't have a family, then what does it mean?

Songwriting is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low.

Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"