I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.

I'm not a huge fan of covers in general, but collaborations always make them more fun - they're sort of neutral territory.

I've been college, but to be truthfully frank, weed is knowledge because it makes me think

I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns.

Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.

I'm not sayin I'm a pothead, cause I'm not. I'm just sayin that I smoke a lot.

My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

I enjoy watching children interact with the world, the way they engage their environment without any filters, learned models, or cynicism.

Do some good to the ghetto, Mr. Kris Kringle. Come and stay awhile, kick it with God's Angels. Take and acknowledge my wisdom and understand That Santa Claus is a black man.

It's ninety-six degrees in the shade... Before I catch blood on my blade.

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

Challenges will come that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite.

One cannot know everything.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

Ranger fans are the rudest and they're proud of it, I'm sure.

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

You never put her in your heart.

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.