I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind.

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

No one is exempt from grief.

One of the things that we love most about our comedy [ American Reunion] is that it goes all-out.

He addressed a black lawyer as "boy". That's why Jeff Sessions couldn't get through Senate confirmation process under the old rules followed by Democrats and Republicans.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.