I'm trying to go to places where people wouldn't normally, to try to get some new fans.

Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.

A moment will pass, but a movement will last.

Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this little hole that I'm in." You've got this core fan base, but it's limited.

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something.

What's life if you're not enjoying it?

These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady

They see me rollin’, they hatin’

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

I just try to do me, and I feel like it works.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I wrote 'The story of O' alone, for Dominique Aury, to interest him, to please him, to occupy him. I wasn't young, nor particularly pretty. I needed something which might interest a man like him.

I think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

Look to yourself for the answer - stop calling your girlfriends and stop calling your mom - you know if it's working or not, you either feel like a goddess or you don't

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.