Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

What's that you're holding?" he asked, noticing the pamphlet, still rolled up in her left

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.

I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem