I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it

Life is just a moment of time and it pass by

The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, It's all contractual and about money makin'.

Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation; When patience was a virtue...but I wasn't used to waitin.

I chop 'em into salad and my name ain't Caesar.

Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it

If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway

Hey, it’s nice of you to show up!” That was a decent start. “What has it been—a year since you flattened my heart by leaving without a word and ignoring all of my texts, messages, and voicemails?

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

I'd rather suffer 1000 truths than enjoy 1 lie.

If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot."

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success.