Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

I'm using more energy than ever.

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

Invest your time and buy greatness with it.

You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there.

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is complete.

If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.