You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce it, so far as possible, in his daily life?

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.

They [Muslims] are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so, then racist I must be - and happy and proud, to be so.

To err from the right path is common to mankind.