How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

Hu-man, Hu-mility, Hu-manity, is a title of nobility of the Perfected One, one who has knowledge of its self, and living its essence

You can't do anything about the past, it's done and can't be mended. But the future is different, if you just think what you really want and reach out and take it.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.

THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.