I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.

I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.

I live to die; better that than to live a lie.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.

The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.

Success is the shyest creature, blushes when you court it, jilts you when you propose to it, reneges later and perhaps blushes again.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Obama looks like he DOES need a teleprompter.

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved.

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday.