Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.

The skyline is etched in my veins. You can never put that out, no matter how hard it rains.

And know that every struggle in life is there to teach you a lesson It's times like this that make you

Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky I know your fed up but you must try to survive Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled Was convincing women that they looked Better in their makeup

Don't forget where you come from Don't die holding on to your words Cause you know you got a whole world to change But understand who you got to change first

Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

The moment is now and we cant get it back from the grave.

Interact with others as if you are radiating happiness and healing from within.

Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long

A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.

I feel like everything great that's beginning to happen in my career started with the 'ink' Paste Magazine gave me!

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.

Zen is like soap. First you wash with it, and then you wash off the soap.