I try to deliver because I don't believe that people are deliverin' the same quality of albums.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

This is my life homie, you decide yours

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

...reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into.

I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal.We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.

The only voice of dissent you have to dispel is your own.

We as people have a purpose here to contribute to the Earth, to contribute to people's goodness and good life.

Confidence is everything. From there, it's a small step to winning.

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.