Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducation and illiteracy.

True power is the power to empower others.

I don't think that we should look to celebrities to solve problems that are on our end of the street.

Real artists offer authenticity, not just money.

There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only score when you leave home and return home.

New York is the financial capital of the world. Everything moves so fast, and the music is fast, and some of it is for money.

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi, Arkansas, and with them was brought blues and gospel music.

There's an economy of violence. It's sexy. It's being exploited.

Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.