What I’m getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in...

I’d like to build what I call an oasis.

I’m sad about this, but we shouldn’t have been married in the first place.

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it’s a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still...

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people’s truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly...

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

It’s the music that brings us together.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I’ve been able to succeed in my chosen career.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

I’m trying to make it to be 90 years old.

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the...

Making music is fantastic.

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I’m sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don’t have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.

Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn’t making sense. Especially...

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I’m looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

Most performers don’t admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.

I’m not likely to forget where I’ve been and what I’ve done and learned. I think it’s just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer...

Any guy that’s not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don’t want to know.

I know that people think I’m sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It’s wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful...

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Next door, there’s an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I’m sorry, I...

When you’re famous, you don’t get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don’t see the real people.

I’m from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

I think it’s a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

I just don’t think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.

There are 120 million kids in the world right now who don’t go to school. Who have no education – who have no access to education.

I’m used to hearing myself. My own voice.

I was blessed with a gift. It’s a gift and a curse. It never ends.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they’ll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

I think a guy who’s had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You’re writing for the public.

I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.

Two days ago, I was killed in LA. CNN reported that. What if my grandmother had seen that and had a heart attack? People talk about lyrical content. There is no media responsibility. Movies, the...

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I’m confident that we’ll eventually figure it out.

It was a difficult road for What Is This. Their business did not come easy. Eventually, the lack of success forced different directions.

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.