In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

The thing that men and women need to do is stick together Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever

All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...

I am recognizing that the voice inside my head Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.

We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.

When it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold.

The evil is in the White House at the present time.

We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes; Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.

Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.

The world is kinda cold and the rhythm is my blanket Wrap yourself up in it, if you love it, then you'll thank it.

The Democratic Party has succeeded so well that many of its members are now Republicans.

Good authors worry about genres great authors don't.

Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader and would no more read a book alone if they could help it than have a baby alone.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.

If I could make crazy money just doing stand-up, that's what I would do.

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.