I kind of grew up and started maturing.

Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.

A moment will pass, but a movement will last.

Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this little hole that I'm in." You've got this core fan base, but it's limited.

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something.

What's life if you're not enjoying it?

These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady

They see me rollin’, they hatin’

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

I just try to do me, and I feel like it works.

Negative thoughts and beliefs are poisons to one's true destiny on earth.

I can't tell whether a revived man would appreciate his second chance or yearn for the stolen serenity.

Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.

If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.

Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.

In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles.

My goal was always getting my work out in the world, and in many ways, I feel like the luckiest person alive.

I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.