My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Hold the thoughts, know the thoughts and you realize the thoughts have slowed showing breaks and gaps, be the witness to them and you shall be meditating

Our behavior is human with a sliver of animal, our souls animal with a sliver of human.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought.

We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.

I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living.