Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

I won't say I've closed the door on acting.

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

The presence of fear doesn't mean that you lack what it takes to strive and win. It only means that you stepping into a whole new territory.

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.