We got to push to give, and one life to live.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

Balance hangs in the fingers of Peace

A bachelor is a man who has to know how to remove a coffee stain from a catsup stain from a silk tie.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.

I'd rather miss one or two games than to come back and pop it and miss four or five.

The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.

And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.

In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.