I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

If your repentance and God's forgiveness of your sin does not lead to total surrender to God, you should wonder if you truly repented.

Without business skills, your passion or hobby will not translate into money in your pocket.

I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.

The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

When I'm out on the field, I'm not scared of anyone.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.