Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.

Stone walls do not a prison make Nor iron bars a cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

People of dua are optimistic by definition. They know that dua and thoughts like 'unlikely' or 'impossible' don't coexist.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates".

Success is not something you achieve, conquer, climb, or complete. Success is a process; it's a way of life.