If you're to the point where you're trying to overcome that means you're at the point where you've admitted that you have a problem, and that might be your strongest point in the addiction.

I think everyone has spiritual encounters and feelings but I don't think everyone chooses to acknowledge them.

You can make your mind sharper, you can get sharper with time.

With it all independent I feel like we're doing it one person at a time turning people into believers one person at a time. Just that good old-fashioned grind, get out there, touch the people.

Real dudes move in silence...like a mute drivin a new hybrid.

I've never really been one to stop and smell the roses.

I don't like things to feel forced. I just let it flow, if it's not flowing I just wait a bit in the studio or I go home.

Something that I can say, "I set out to do this, however many years ago, and now I did it." That's a new thing of mine too, is just speaking things into existence.

Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it's going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball.

Manual Lynn? Find out what that is. He wrote every single word in the play, and then everyone just rapped their parts. Imagine if like, Eminem wrote a play, that's what it sounded like to me.

I'm not saying my teachers should have rapped my lessons or anything, but I feel if I had made more of a connection to them I would have gotten more out of school.

If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a genius, and when they can't understand, will certainly think of you a stupid.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

The cyberspace 'earnings' I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.