I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm not ready for a masterpiece.

The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.

Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.

I've told people that I don't see myself living very long. That really upsets them, but I'm just being honest.

Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.

Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).

True self-love and social are the same.

It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.

If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the creation of our country. Racism is deeply rooted in America.

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.

Keep in mind that God's sovereignty allows Him to even use that which is not cooperating with Him (the bad) in order to move things to where He wants them to go.