For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.

I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

We need each other, We believe in one another, And I know we're gonna uncover, What's sleepin' in our soul...

I'm embarrassed when I see Brits abroad; they have their tops off, wear flip flops, and shout at the top of their voices.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

You gotta say what you say, Don't let anybody get in your way...

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.

Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.

You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.

Be strong in heart, spirit and mind.

Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

Nice characters are boring!

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.