I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

How could you not wanna be in Doctor Who at least once in your career?

If something can be said to make an awkward moment even worse, I'm going to say it.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

When people are not accepting toward themselves they are often obsessed with acceptance by others.

I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

Our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas, are physical in the universe.