Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

You can't judge people by their cover.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.

If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.

an unknown and forgotten treasure of the earliest Christians, a manual for living used by the generation of Jesus followers immediately after the apostles.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Next time you think of me like that , say my name when you come. It'll get you off even better.

K-State is a dangerous team. Those are the kind of teams you don't want to see in the tournament.

Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.

Honesty is very sexy.