I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.

I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

It hurts when people put you down.

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God.

Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.

Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I’ll wake up with sweat drenching my chest and think it’s the blood and muck I was covered in that night.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.

I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.

When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge.