Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.

I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

You see, from where I stand, there are a couple of ways. You continue your journey and you will find your path or the path is already there and you aren't just able to see it.

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

Peter," she whispered and reached out, touching his cheek. "My little Peterbird? You flew back to me.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show