In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

Two people working on a relationship with the same energy & passion increases the chances of great results.

Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen.

Im living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.

If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.

I treat my career like it just happened yesterday.

I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.

My whole thing has always been as long as everybody else is going through it, I can go through it as well.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

There's nothing you can do about what social media is now or the internet. You just try to find other avenues to make yourself seen and heard.

Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain't nobody humpin' around.

We were born free.

A mind is not weighed by its magnitude, but by the dimensions of its thoughts.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Enlighten the people, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.