All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine

I'm just stayin' humble, and true. It's good right now baby - staying' true baby.

People's feelings get hurt when they figure out what I'm worth.

If you choose the right people for the group, it goes a little bit differently. At the same time, you can't always predict what's going to happen. Success might change people.

I love music so much, and as long as I got all this enthusiasm and ambition, and passion for this music; as long as I'm having' fun - I'm gonna keep doin' it.

How to Draw a Picture (XII)Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

I took four years of violin, but got bored of it - over the years, I've been ADD with instruments. The only two that I've really stayed true to are guitar and piano.

Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?

Referees don't come down here with a particular flavoured shirt on.

I feel like my singing is not conventional. I mean, if you look at technique, I'm not a technical singer.

It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.