There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.

I do think that the fear mentality - of scarcity - comes from within.

You have to go create your own fire and people are going to come to you if you create it.

I now know that me giving my all and giving my best will result in my needs being taken care of and provided for.

I've noticed from my fans that we hide the things that we are facing.

Make a little space, and get out of your own way.

Once I figured out what I wanted to say in my music. As soon I recognized that and once I was living my truth, the money followed.

I don't worry about money because I no longer have the fear mentality that I won't be provided for.

Now there are times when I have to make big decisions as I'm now running a company and that it's OK to go with being respected first.

I've had to do a lot of growing quickly for my career and owning that I'm the boss. I used to play every single one of the roles and now I have to remember that I'm the boss.

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.

There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.

That day I swore to never manipulate anyone again. Even if I believed I was doing good--for who am I to presume what is good for others?

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

I'm expressin' with my full capabilities, And now I'm livin in correctional facilities. Cause some don't agree with how I do this, I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist.

Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

Happy to me is not what I thought happy was. Happy is actually better, because it includes room for sadness. A definition of success must leave room for failure, because it's part of it.