My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

I'm not a huge fan of covers in general, but collaborations always make them more fun - they're sort of neutral territory.

I've been college, but to be truthfully frank, weed is knowledge because it makes me think

I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.

I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns.

Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.

I'm not sayin I'm a pothead, cause I'm not. I'm just sayin that I smoke a lot.

I enjoy watching children interact with the world, the way they engage their environment without any filters, learned models, or cynicism.

Do some good to the ghetto, Mr. Kris Kringle. Come and stay awhile, kick it with God's Angels. Take and acknowledge my wisdom and understand That Santa Claus is a black man.

It's ninety-six degrees in the shade... Before I catch blood on my blade.

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

The feeling of freedom is as precious as a fortune waiting to be told.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

The next time you do a filibuster, keep walking around.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

Worldbuilding to me is taking the consequences of an idea.

You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.