Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives.

The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night.

I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.

Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knockthem down.

Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.

In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.

The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.

I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.

What you see will hurt you

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York.

You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.

Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.

Try to live with a generous heart. Doing anything else is too hard.