I was going through some emotional turmoil. You can tell by the tunes on the album that I was going through a break-up of my marriage. It was the only way I could express myself.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

I always keep my head down, working, doing things, moving forward. That's what I've done all my life. Then you stop and realize what you've done.

I don't sit back and count up what I've done. There's just always something else to do. There's always a challenge ahead.

I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

Don't slip into the traps, and don't forget about your 'hood, the kids in the 'hood. Remember, you're disposable, so take advantage while you can.

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused.

Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?

God will give me the place where I don't know, but I want to go to heaven because there is my friends are waiting for me.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.

That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.