I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

You are so much more than you are in this moment; you never know how great you can be. Don't give up on you, I didn't give up on me.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

Love is boundary-less.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

We are all souls walking on the earth.

How one responds in these dire circumstances says a lot about one's faith and the strength of one's beliefs.

Everyone does not know the secrets of TruthThe States of Truth are not evidential.

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?

I'm a competitor. No matter what I'm doing, whether I'm golfing, whether I'm playing indoor soccer with my fiancé - he's not going to get by me. I'm going to try to do whatever I can to win.

I like making mini-movies rather than just three-minute, place-the-champagne-here-for-sponsorship videos.

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

Don't focus on what I'm wearing. Focus on what's coming out of my face.