Today I feel like it's about people just looking fresh and their records aren't fresh.

Let's be honest, the cards' on the table: Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel. Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus. It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas.

Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise.

In God we trust, the game is all us. Til the sky calls or its flames on us.

Sitting with the woman of your dreams and forgetting what her name is.

This is my time, this is my hour, This is my pain, this is my name, this is my power. If it's my reign, then it's my shower, This pole position...I made a lane 'cause they blocked ours.

I believe there's a god above me, I'm just the god of everything else!

We shoppers, you bloggers. If money talks, you mumblers. You try it on, then take it off, Then post a pic on your tumblrs.

I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.

Let's test the waters... Love makes a splash, and you too thick to skinny-dip.

I find myself trying to explain more, and explain the perspective of my mentality, or the mentality I'm trying to convey.

A writer who’s a pro can take on almost any assignment, but if he or she doesn’t much care about the subject, I try to dissuade the writer, as in that case the book can be just plain hard labor.

I would die for you, my love—in old age.

The meat. I'd barbecue it before I put it on

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

When your through changing, your through!

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system