I'm not saying my teachers should have rapped my lessons or anything, but I feel if I had made more of a connection to them I would have gotten more out of school.

I think everyone has spiritual encounters and feelings but I don't think everyone chooses to acknowledge them.

You can make your mind sharper, you can get sharper with time.

With it all independent I feel like we're doing it one person at a time turning people into believers one person at a time. Just that good old-fashioned grind, get out there, touch the people.

Real dudes move in silence...like a mute drivin a new hybrid.

If you're to the point where you're trying to overcome that means you're at the point where you've admitted that you have a problem, and that might be your strongest point in the addiction.

I've never really been one to stop and smell the roses.

I don't like things to feel forced. I just let it flow, if it's not flowing I just wait a bit in the studio or I go home.

Something that I can say, "I set out to do this, however many years ago, and now I did it." That's a new thing of mine too, is just speaking things into existence.

Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it's going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball.

Manual Lynn? Find out what that is. He wrote every single word in the play, and then everyone just rapped their parts. Imagine if like, Eminem wrote a play, that's what it sounded like to me.

Kissing her wasn't just a kiss. It was a full-body, mid-altering experience.

When it begins, where it goes how it ends...It all comes down to you.

The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.

You've got to do things that promote what's important.

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.