If you choose the right people for the group, it goes a little bit differently. At the same time, you can't always predict what's going to happen. Success might change people.

I'm just stayin' humble, and true. It's good right now baby - staying' true baby.

People's feelings get hurt when they figure out what I'm worth.

All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine

I love music so much, and as long as I got all this enthusiasm and ambition, and passion for this music; as long as I'm having' fun - I'm gonna keep doin' it.

God sees you as a great person

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth.

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.