I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

Art is I science is we.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

At this point in my career I'm not concerned about the money, it's about winning. Nothing else even matters.

When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform

The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.

Happiness is not something you find, but rather something you create.