Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what I was out to do.

I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.

Everybody wants to make better music.

I don't even go on the computer. Don't anybody around me get on the computer.

Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of all ages on a regular basis.

At the end of the day, I wanna be a great...a legend. I've been working hard.

I'd take about 40 thousand CDs, and then take about three full vans of people to hit every hood, every mall, and every club. Just hit one city to the next.

It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.

Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness

I love hockey. That's actually one of my favorite sports.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

Don't be interesting - be interested.

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.