I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.

Let's be honest, the cards' on the table: Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel. Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus. It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas.

Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise.

In God we trust, the game is all us. Til the sky calls or its flames on us.

Sitting with the woman of your dreams and forgetting what her name is.

This is my time, this is my hour, This is my pain, this is my name, this is my power. If it's my reign, then it's my shower, This pole position...I made a lane 'cause they blocked ours.

I believe there's a god above me, I'm just the god of everything else!

We shoppers, you bloggers. If money talks, you mumblers. You try it on, then take it off, Then post a pic on your tumblrs.

I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.

Let's test the waters... Love makes a splash, and you too thick to skinny-dip.

I find myself trying to explain more, and explain the perspective of my mentality, or the mentality I'm trying to convey.

They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.

You can do anything to my food and I'll still eat it.