Sometimes GOD places walls NOT to hold us back, but to test our determination

If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right.

Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.

I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the face. It makes a more alive, real, and flattering portrait.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.

The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

But I'll be fine. I'll be with Tod. He's a good guy, you know." He just hides it under all the sarcasm and curls.

You don't scream because you're scared. You scream on purpose.

German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.