I derive a tremendous amount of pride in developing places that everyday people can experience. I like to create beauty in everyday lives.

I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to.

African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.

I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.

At the end of the day, Obamacare is bad for America. Washington, D.C., exempted themselves. U.S. senators still do not have to be on Obamacare.