My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'

Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.

That’s me, man – I’m a lover not a fighter.

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

I've learnt so much from the people I've worked with, about how to listen to stuff as it's coming together and not force anything.

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

Hate California--it's cold and it's damp.

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

I put fruit on top of my waffles, because I want something to brush off.

Belgium is a country with a split personality.

By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.