People's feelings get hurt when they figure out what I'm worth.

I'm just stayin' humble, and true. It's good right now baby - staying' true baby.

All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine

If you choose the right people for the group, it goes a little bit differently. At the same time, you can't always predict what's going to happen. Success might change people.

I love music so much, and as long as I got all this enthusiasm and ambition, and passion for this music; as long as I'm having' fun - I'm gonna keep doin' it.

Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.

I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

Whatever you do, do well. Be good at it. Stand a little taller. Be a little stronger. Be a little better.

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

I spend a lot of time thinking of the Hereafter - each time I enter a room I wonder what I'm here after.

Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.

I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.