I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

Stay young and wild as long as you can

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

Hate is a self-destructive illness.

if you rest at work, you will work at rest

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved

The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.

A black woman's body was never hers alone.

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

Nothing is more important than a good education.

It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.

A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.