People aren't hearing all the music.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.

All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.

Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.

In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.

What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

History is all explained by geography.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.