No one can break me down. I know my worth and its a beautiful thing.

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

Anyone's happier when they're not being verbally abused all day long.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

First things first, I'm da realest.

Pledge allegiance to the struggle.

Once you go great, you never go good..You never go back, even if you could.

I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.

When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.

There's a huge emotional component to weight loss.

An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime, the aggregate, grows thicker and denser.

Imagine having "no chain of titles for cars, no VIN numbers, and no DMV. There'd be total chaos! But that's basically the system for debt.

Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.

I would like to think I will be a guy who knows when it's time to stop. I don't want to be a guy who hung on and hung on. I do not have a goal in mind of a year or a statistic.

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?