It evoked Picasso and Miles Davis for me — two great artists who totally indulged themselves in their work and who they were, but they certainly didn't give a damn what other people thought.

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.

He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

The poetry of country music will survive.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.

God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.

Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.

Never stop growing in life. The world's tallest redwood trees were once little nuts, that kept on growing, regardless of weather, trials and tribulations.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.

I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.

Black people use body lotion every single day.

Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.