A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

Your perspective changes when you put God first by praising Him!

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

When I would lose matches, I fully respected the person who beat me, because they beat me. I can't blame anybody.