Real artists offer authenticity, not just money.

True power is the power to empower others.

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.

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

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.

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.

Don't, " she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire.

I never fear death... for me it's only a new beginning.

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

He's the light that guided me to where I am now, out of the darkness, out of despair.

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

A man's concept of God creates his attitude towards the hour in which he lives.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.