Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to imagine a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!

A society whose members are helpless need idols.

With life, everything that’s needed to be known can be known by human. No mystery can be hidden from you if you really try to look into it.

A paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.

A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.

The Internet is, as a communication platform and a learning platform, unparalleled because whether you want to learn something or share something, it's simply a few clicks away.

music became my refuge and then my salvation.

I think there's a certain stigma that comes with being a white rapper and having a show.

Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"?

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.