Most of life is choices and the rest is pure dumb luck.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

All the humanity (Not the people!), are incrediable. What makes them incrediable is the way of thinking, the way of solving!

My mother once said, 'If you come across a man with more than one personality, you can be sure he's looking for himself in one of them, because he has no character.' But I think she was wrong

Stop your doubting, my love. I knew you would find me. ~Jack

Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.

Walk towards the light, put it on your head and then crush your shadow that hides under your feet

"You're All That" goes back to really building a life from the core of who you're. And all of those things are layers. That's just your authentic life.

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.