I'm not a rock and roller, a hitmaker. I'm highly dependent on what's coming out of these vocal cords.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

Whoever is unwilling to help himself can be helped by no one.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

When a man says his word is as his bond - get his bond.

Being well-mannered and gracious and kind are things that I value really highly.

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.