It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.

That’s me, man – I’m a lover not a fighter.

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

i am like the moon--sometimes, full.sometimes, black.sometimes, forever and ever alone.

One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.

You eat the burger but you don't want the slaughterhouse next door to where you live.

In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?