[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Indomitable soul encompasses a beautiful heart and a beautiful smile.

You won't become a billionaire if you're always afraid. You may become a thousandier or even a hundred thousandier but you won't enjoy the money anyway.

Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

A race cannot be purified from without.

I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.

Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

Only fools are positive.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.