If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

Every person deserves a chance to show what they can best offer world.

Advice for the wise: You"d better bite your tongueRather than cast a spell wrong.

Men are good but women are magic.

I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.

I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.

When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair.

I'm a literalist. I believe what people say. When they say it, I think they mean it.

Marriage is meant to be more about your surrender than about your satisfaction.

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?