I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.

People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.

The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

Truth and honesty is my thing.

Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

Through all life changes, God is in control.

If I kiss you now, I won’t be able to stop. We’ll miss the party.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.

In my next life, I want to come back as one of my dogs. They live nicely.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.