I don't write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I always hung around older dudes. I feel like I was more wise and I just had more knowledge of what was going on.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

It's the timing. I don't have to do it [drugs] all the time.

Everybody just needs a second chance.

You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records. So, I'm going to start opening up and letting you know my struggles.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

My die-hard fans who came out - I call them my die-hard fans because any time a fan pays to see you, they have to love what you're doing, respect the craft.

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.

Once a Raider, always a Raider.

Apparently I had lunch with Johnny Depp when I was three months old.

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free.

With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

I mean, what's eleven million people now days?