There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone else’s eyes, when your only hope of believing you’re capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.

I'm a sucker for a guy with a big organ.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

Being asked, "Where are you REALLY from?" It makes one feel OTHERED.

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

I don't write my own songs. I don't have time.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion.