If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Being free is a state of mind.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.

From the necks up... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra.

No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess.

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

I suppose I like to give people something to talk and think about. I can just be the person that kind of put a message in the bottle to see where it ends up.

Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.

When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.

Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see.

Boast quietly, with decorum.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.