Half the hoes hate, half them love me. The ones that hate me only hate me cuz they ain't [expletive] me.

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Gilbert?"Some days I hate all those who know my name.

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

Whenever you're doing two things at once, you're compromising them both.

The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

I don't think there's anything wrong with singing a song and having fun with it.

I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.

I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property.