I'm more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything.

My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

I feel that luck is a product of hard work.

We're not the cause, we're the effect.

[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?

If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you're gonna pick up a rag and start bangin', and you can look yourself in the mirror and you still feel like you're a man? That's cool, do your thing.

I'm not used to seeing people's faces. There's too much information there. Aren't you aware of it? Too much, too fast.

One day I asked God to move the mountain ahead of me, but he said no because he wanted me to experience the joy of being on a mountain top.

I'm an Author, not a Grammarist!

I hate religion. I think it's a neurological disorder.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

Smaller societies must prepare the way for greater.

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

If anyone accuses me of lying, I'll simply say I'm not lying, which is just an extension of the overall lying strategy.

I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.

In performance, you dont always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.