I don't like being preachy. I think using fun and humor is an excellent way to make people think.

I want to inspire people to become their higher selves, their best selves.

We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.

I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown.

I've quit drugs and drinking and been into healthy stuff like yoga.

I wanted to make some music with deeper meaning mixed with the fun and cool stuff I've been doing for so long.

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes it's really challenging to get anything good out of myself.

I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.

Everything I do has to come from a sense of fun and joy.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

If you want to prosper, prosper God.

The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

Most experts suggest that one should open with a joke. Obviously they've never heard me tell a joke.

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.

A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

[On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies.

A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.