Later on in life I was like, "Wow!" because that's exactly how it was. They don't care that you're mixed. They see you as one color.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Being free is a state of mind.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

Do not forget you will never live forever.

Nirvana is too simple an experience to be depicted by diagrams.

Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.

the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want.

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

I run so my goals in life will continue to get bigger instead of my belly.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

I don't like travelling if I know I have to write about it.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body is not enfleshed in a healthy way.