It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

A nail-pierced hand holds the sceptre of the universe, and my knees bend before him.

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be.

Don't let fatigue make a coward of you.

I love the history of the sport, I love the culture that surrounds it, and I never dreamed I'd become a fanatic. I'm such a fanatic now that I'm committed to competing.

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.