I couldn't make every song about Texas because it wouldn't be new; it wouldn't be a breath of fresh air.

Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.

A moment will pass, but a movement will last.

Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this little hole that I'm in." You've got this core fan base, but it's limited.

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something.

What's life if you're not enjoying it?

These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady

They see me rollin’, they hatin’

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

I just try to do me, and I feel like it works.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

To catch you're elusive dreams you must be prepared to track it to the ends of the earth. Let nothing stop you're pursuit of dreams.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE...AND REMIND EVERYONE...OF THE FATE...OF THE ENSLAVED...YAZIDI WOMEN

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.