I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

Dreams appear as seeds that when planted, must become a forest reserve.

Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve

Abandon your resentments, they keep you small.

A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

You miss every shot you don't take.

The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.