Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

You can't reinvent yourself using spare parts..."--Barry Randall from My Father's Ashes

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

I'm such a damn workaholic, that it's interesting to be like, "Oh, what do I do for fun?"

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

Fair is whatever God wants to do.

Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.